num_pages: 177
description: In a selection from their ten-year correspondence from 1958 to 1968, the Trappist monk and the Polish writer debate the role of communism in the Cold War era, share advice about literature, and exchange contrasting views on the natural world.
language: English
title: Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz
titlecomplete: Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz
genres: Christianity, Philosophy, Biography, Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 79
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux