Wielkie Księstwo Litewskie w oczach Czesława Miłosza : (eseje, rozmowy)

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė (LDK; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; GDL); Kalbos ir kultūros; Lenkų literatūra; Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė (LDK; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; GDL); Tapatybė; Česlavas Milošas (Milosz); Cultures and languages; Czeslaw Milosz; Polish literature; Self-identity; The Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

ENCzesław Miłosz often refers to his life in essays and conversations. By using the strategy of uncovering/covering, the poet transfers the biography into paraliterary and non-literary statements. According to the writer, the most important feature of the biography is emigration, which sentences a person to solitude and mental journeys to the world of childhood and youth, often transformed into mythological Arcadia. When it comes to Miłosz, these journeys refer to a highly diversified area as far as culture, language and rich history are concerned. Naturally, the writer goes back to the past although he declares that he is more interested in the future. For the author of The Issa Valley, The Grand Duchy of Lithuania is an area of rootedness, which for Simone Weil stands for functioning in a community that maintains tradition and plans the future. The paradox of Miłosz is that he came across factors that influenced his intellectual and mental formation only in the form of heritage - trails found in various regions - starting from the history and ending with culture. For Miłosz, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is primarily a construction of a mind shaped by resistance to contemporaneousness and a need to change it, as well as by axiology. It is not a myth that takes place in locus amoenus. [text from author]