Czesława Miłosza szukanie ojczyzny

• Czeslaw Milosz in searc h for fatherland
• Česlovo Milošo tėvynės paieškos

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Daugiakultūrinis; Daugiakultūriškumas; Identitetas; Literatūros istorija; Miloszas; Tapatybė; Tėvynė; Česlovas Milošas; Fatherland; History of literature; Homeland; Identity; Lithuania; Milosz; Multicultural.

ENThe article undertakes a difficult and contradictory process of determining the national self-identity of the Polish Nobel-prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, a man born in multicultural Lithuania, in the ‘off street yard of the empire’, bound to emigration and life far away from his fatherland. His little fatherland – Lithuanian country and Vilnius – shaped his world outlook, which is frequently marked by critical reflection on controversial identification of the model notion of patriotism with the martyrdom of Lechites and Messiah. Devising his song of experience, the poet attempted to deconstruct his own national identity which made him create a universal approach to openness towards otherness, multiculturalism, multi-ethnicity, multilingualism, and multi-religiosity, which may lead to complex modernity. The Polish language was a sanctuary for the artist, to which he remained faithful – the language in which infinity permeates finitude, giving the chance to multi-aspect depictions of human fate inscribed in History. [From the publication]