Oscar Milosz - Works

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Milosz collected Lithuanian folk tales, wrote fiction, drama, and essays. Largely neglected during his lifetime, Milosz has increasingly come to be considered as an important figure in French poetry.

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Some of his works in French:

  • 1899 : Le Poème des Décadences (poetry)
  • 1906 : Les Sept Solitudes (poetry)
  • 1910 : L'Amoureuse Initiation (novel)
  • 1911 : Les Éléments (poetry)
  • 1913 : Miguel Mañara. Mystère en six tableaux. (play)
  • 1915 : Poèmes
  • 1917 : Épitre à Storge (first part of Ars Magna)
  • 1918 : Adramandoni (six poems)
  • 1919 : Méphisobeth (play)
  • 1922 : La Confession de Lemuel
  • 1924 : Ars Magna (philosophy)
  • 1926-27 : Les Arcanes (poetry)
  • 1930 : Contes et Fabliaux de la vieille Lithuanie (translation of folk tales)
  • 1932 : Origines ibériques du peuple juif (essay)
  • 1933 : Contes lithuaniens de ma Mère l'Oye (translation of folk tales)
  • 1936 : Les Origines de la nation lithuanienne (essay)
  • 1938 : La Clef de l'Apocalypse

Works translated into English:

  • 1928, a collection of 26 Lithuanian songs;
  • 1930, Lithuanian Tales and Stories;
  • 1933, Lithuanian Tales;
  • 1937, The origin of the Lithuanian Nation, in which he tried to persuade the reader that Lithuanians have the same origin as Jews from the Iberian Peninsula.
  • 1985, The Noble Traveller: The Life and Writings of Oskar Milosz, ed. Christopher Bamford (Lindisfarne Press).

Opera based on his poems:

  • 2004, Books of Silence, Composer - Latvian Andris Dzenitis

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