Vilnius
Subtitle: a personal history
By: Tomas Venclova ; translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo ; with a dialogue about a city by Czesław Miłosz and Tomas Venclova ; translated by M. Ostafin.
Contributors: Miłosz, Czesław.; Venclova, Tomas, 1937-
Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press; Brand: Sheep Meadow; Sheep Meadow
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Riverdale-on-Hudson, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781931357401
Subjects: Vilnius (Lithuania) -- History; Vilnius (Lithuania) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Originally published in German: Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, 2006, under title Vilnius : eine Stadt in Europa.

Dialogue originally appeared in Forms of hope : essays / Tomas Venclova. 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The city enthroned in the midst of mighty forests"; title: Last of the heathens, late Christians; title: A palimpsest Prague and Rome in miniature; title: Professors and rabbis; title: From Sarmatian anarchy to political romanticism; title: Uprisings and cultural battles; title: "Two hostile forces are tugging at the Strasbourg of the East"; title: A city with a long memory; title: Appendix.