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Article: Striving Towards Being: The Letter of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz.(Review)
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- CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health
- Article date:
- December 22, 1998
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Robert Faggen, ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. 178pp. $21.00 (cloth).
Robert Faggen's edition of these letters traces the spiritual journey and growing friendship of two writers as they struggle together with the deepest questions of the human condition. The relationship began in 1958 when Merton wrote Milosz to praise and inquire about his ambivalent, yet strident, analysis of Communism, The Captive Mind, and ended with Merton's death in 1968. Throughout the collection, the reader is made privy to the thoughts of both Merton and Milosz on topics ranging from contemporary culture and the history of the Church to their most personal literary and ...