Poszukiwanie rodzinnej Europy
In Search for Native Europe

Summary/Abstract: Native Realm, a book by Czesław Miłosz, attempts to answer the question: who am I? “I wished to manifest (amidst the people of the West) my Eastern and foreign traits”. For Westerners the book’s title introduced a broadened comprehension of European heritage, not applied from the time of the Yalta Conference and previously also stamped by an awareness of the inferiority of “other” Europe. Miłosz sensitized the establishment of the cultural identity of the inhabitant of the West in the face of a geographical expansion of Europe by means of societies and traditions from its forgotten Eastern borderlands, which evoked their existence and aspirations.

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