Polska Miłosza, Polska Herberta
Miłosz’s Poland, Herbert’s Poland
Author(s): Stefan ChwinSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Geography, Regional studies, Studies of Literature, Local History / Microhistory, Political history, Philology, Translation Studies
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Czesław Miłosz; Zbigniew Herbert; twentieth-century Polish literature; Polishness; the nation; Piłsudski’s legions; National Democracy; Russia; Warsaw Uprising; Polish People’s Republic; Gierek era;
Summary/Abstract: An argument about Poland emerges from the work and statements of the poets Czesław Miłosz and Zbigniew Herbert. This was not a black-and-white antagonism; it cannot be reduced to the opposition of a “Jagiellonian Poland” (imagined by the Piłsudski camp, for instance, or the liberal-democratic Poland) and the National Democracy’s vision of Poland. What we have is multiple threads, and besides the differences we also find essential – often surprising – similarities in the two poets’ thought or style of thinking. Herbert’s notion of Poland was not as National Democratic as Miłosz wanted to believe, nor was Miłosz’s idea of Poland as radically anti-right as it seemed at first sight.
Journal: Teksty Drugie
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 6
- Page Range: 16-37
- Page Count: 22
- Language: Polish
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