“Monstrous Betrayal”: On the Sources of the Controversy around the Film Adaptation of Dolina Issy [The Issa Valey ] Cover Image

„Potworna zdrada”. O źródłach kontrowersyjności adaptacji Doliny Issy
“Monstrous Betrayal”: On the Sources of the Controversy around the Film Adaptation of Dolina Issy [The Issa Valey ]

Author(s): Przemysław Kaniecki
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne
Keywords: Tadeusz Konwicki; Czesław Miłosz; Tadeusz Różewicz; film adaptation; nihilism; guilt; Vilna

Summary/Abstract: The author attempts to identify the origins of the famous argument between Miłosz and Konwicki about the film adaptation of Dolina Issy. Konwicki created a film which, although it is an adaptation of the novel, clearly belongs to his own creative output, focused on axiological uncertainty after The Second World War. Konwicki’s work is a record of a quest for enduring points of reference, a quest conducted with realisation that such points cannot be found by a person who feels lost in the modern world. Such a world-view was not acceptable for Miłosz, and it is difficult to expect that the poet would accept an adaptation of his novel created from such a point of view.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 119-133
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish