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Miłosz about Różewicz: On the Margin of “Braterstwo poezji” (“Brotherhood of Poetry”)

Summary/Abstract: The study is an attempt at grasping the connections between Czesław Miłosz and Tadeusz Różewicz, beginning with the former’s favourable attitude to the latter’s poems and their first post-war contacts. Miłosz’s perspective with a reconstruction of his reading the younger poet’s verses gains here stronger accentuation, though the author also exploits the hidden polemics and references to Miłosz’s “Trzy zimy” (“Three Winters”) in Różewicz’s early poems, as well as looks at the contrasts in world-images of the two poets. The basis of the analysis is “Braterstwo poezji” (“Brotherhood of Poetry”), a collection of correspondence including letters, conversation transcripts, poems and archive materials that mirror uneven rhythm of their relationship interrupted by long periods of silence, occasional meetings, Miłosz’s capricious assessment that oscillates between admiration and sharp criticism, Różewicz’s polemical restraint and contrariness, but primarily it unravels strong and hidden intimate bond between the two men of letters.

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