"Rodzinna Europa" jako klucz do biografii Czesława Miłosza

ENThe essay presents the work of Czesław Milosz (1911-2004) Native Realm (Rodzinna Europa) as the specific key to the biography of this outstanding author. Native Realm is an intelligent tale of individuals freeing themselves from immaturity and achieving a maturity of outlook and emotions. This manifests itself, inter alia, through a distance towards ego and in relation to surrounding reality, breaking the bonds of sociopolitical ritual, with a simultaneous evaluation and understanding of historical geography and the family-local tradition. Especially family and friends, who came - as Miłosz did - from Polish-Lithuanian stock, appeared to the writer akin in mentality and emotions. The idea disturbed him that he was not in his place, not where he should be, and this is reflected in the physical fact of his departure from the land of his ancestors, the territory of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania. However, physical distance brought an unusually strong sensitivity to history and to questions of the past, and, thus, also to the individual and a dimension beyond the individual. [From the publication]