Oscar Milosz - Works

Works

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.

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