The Issa Valley

Cultural

Author: Czesław Miłosz

Thomas, the child-protagonist of The Issa Valley, is subject to both the contradictions of nature in this severe northern setting and sometimes enchanting, sometimes brutal timbre of village life. There are the deep pine and spruce forests, the grouse and the deer, and the hunter’s gun. There is Magdalena, the beautiful mistress of the village priest, whose suicide unleash….Read More

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