Czeseawas Miloszas apie avangardą ir jo šiandienines pasekmes
Milosz in relation to the avant-garde and its postmodern consequences

Summary/Abstract: The 1920s and 1930s, the period when the Weltanschaung of Czeslaw Mifosz formed, were the times of crisis for Modernity in Poland. The most fundamental problems of twentieth century Polish literature took shape against the background of the rise of totalitarianism and mass culture. In the rise and fall of the avant-garde currents, the most significant hopes and dangers of modern creative effort can be perceived. The crisis of individualism, manifested in the rejection of the tragic side of existence, resulted in an escape from freedom and, at the same time, led to Pan European barbarism and the bizarre coincidence of both indifference and the cult of entertainment. Mifosz was to become a poet, who offered one of the most important perspectives on the modern crisis of man and art. His rejection of the avant-garde marks not only the beginning of his polemics with the great Utopias and mod¬ern civilization but also initiates his defense of spiritual resources for shaping human identity. The departure of Mifosz from the avant-garde relates to a broadening of perspectives for the early literature, which meant transforming the materialism of literary insights into human life. Mifosz contradicted these avant-garde principles: the leading role of the community, the belief in technology and the very idea of progress. He juxtaposes these with his belief in the tragic core of existence, which provides meaning to individual life and artistic creation. His literary response to the vision of the New World is the idea of the inner improvement of man, which leads to the poet's detachment from the "restless movement of events."

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