The mountains of Parnassus =
Subtitle: Góry Parnasu
By: Czeslaw Milosz ; translated from the Polish by Stanley Bill
Contributors: Bill, Stanley, translator
Series: A Margellos world republic of letters book; Margellos world republic of letters book
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9780300214253
Subjects: Prophets; Astronauts; Fiction
Other titles: Góry Parnasu
Work titles: Góry Parnasu
Description: Written in the 1970s and published posthumously in Polish in 2012, Milosz's deliberately unfinished novel is set in a dystopian future where hierarchy, patriarchy, and religion no longer exist. Echoing the structure of The Captive Mind and written in an experimental, postmodern style, Milosz's sole work of science fiction follows four individuals: Karel, a disaffected young rebel; Lino, an astronaut who abandons his life of privilege; Petro, a cardinal racked with doubt; and Ephraim, a potential prophet in exile.
Notes: Translation from the Polish of: Góry Parnasu.