Czesław Miłosz and „The Generation of Columbuses” in Lithuanian Literature. A contribution to one more parallel biography Cover Image

Czesław Miłosz i litewscy „Kolumbowie”. Przyczynek do jeszcze jednej biografii równoległej
Czesław Miłosz and „The Generation of Columbuses” in Lithuanian Literature. A contribution to one more parallel biography

Author(s): Beata Kalęba
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Czesław Miłosz; literatura litewska; modernizm; wychodźstwo; komparatystyka literacka

Summary/Abstract: The main question discussed in the article is: why was it the Lithuanian emigration environment in USA that found Miłosz’s poetry a testimony of the era (de facto – their own experience) during the first decade after the WWII. To answer the question mainly two publications are interpreted: the first one is Miłosz’s poetry volume translated into Lithuanian, entitled Epochos sąmoningumo poezija (Poetry of the Era’s Self-Awareness) with introduction (by Miłosz) and afterword (by a poet Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas); the second one is a Lithuanian literary magazine „Literatūros lankai” („Literary sheets”) where Czesław Miłosz published, and where some interpretations of Miłosz’s works, written by Lithuanian writers and philosophers, were published as well.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 65-80
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish