Bøger af Joseph Mileck

Joseph Mileck tells the story of his life in a nutshell, from his birth in 1922 in a village in Roumania to his youth in the steel town of Hamilton, Ontario in Canada, and on to graduate school at Harvard University then to the University of California in Berkeley, up to his death at the age of 100 in December, 2022. Fully illustrated with photos from his archives.

More Food for Thought continues Joseph Mileck's ongoing collection of epigrams. It encompasses culture, religion, philosophy, psychology, politics, and personal recollections, and offers its readers a feast of wisdom, wit, beauty, and biting social commentary. The some 3,100 epigrams in More Food for Thought are both attractive and thought-provoking, and both timely and timeless.

In this, the third volume of his poetry and aphorisms, Joseph Mileck offers us a feast of wit, wisdom, beauty, and biting social commentary. There is plenty of salt and pepper here--and perhaps a little sugar too.

Pensive Pauses is the fourth volume of Joseph Mileck's poems and epigrams. It encompasses culture, religion, philosophy, psychology, politics, and personal recollections, and offers its readers a feast of wisdom, wit, beauty, and biting social commentary. The some 3000 epigrams and some 85 poems of Pensive Pauses are both attractive and thought-provoking, and both timely and timeless.

These essayistic ventures, like the traditional American essay, are uninhibited in their range of interests. The general condition humaine, life and death and peace and war, attracts its fair share of attention, as does the political world, democracy, autocracy and imperialism. Matters philosophical, psychological, religious, scientific and economic provide plentiful fodder for discussion, and America's cultural/social world-its government and sundry institutions, its medical care, education and prisons, and its age of electronics-is ready matter for chronic studied comment. And current events of general significance and personal interest, and a few public dignitaries and notorieties have their merited share of attention. These essayistic ventures and asides emulate the manner of the traditional essay no less than they do its matter. Their variable brevity, studied structure and formal language are reminiscent of the composition of the old essay. And like the traditional essay, these current efforts are intent upon information, instruction and improvement. It is hoped that this return to the traditional American essay resonates positively with readers and writers, and so much as to persuade a fair number of these to attempt their own essays. Such could help to energize a pending popular revival of the venerable essay.

Originally published in celebration of Hermann Hesse's 80th birthday, this highly documented study, practical handbook, and reference work is presented in three parts. Mileck gives a short biography of Hesse's life and a general characterization of his writing, followed by a critical history of Hesse scholarship, and an exhaustive bibliography.

Hesse has led a long and sometimes eventful life with marital tensions, travel controversy, crises, even some thoughts of suicide and a period of time as a student in a home for retarded and unmanageable. Hesse was a prolific author for some 60 years. In this book, he tells his story.