GENUS UNIVERSUM: THE GENOLOGICAL STATUS OF THE WORK OF CZESLAW MILOSZ

• Authors: Pawelec D.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This is an attempt at tracing Czeslaw Milosz's creative impulse, called by the writer himself 'the longing for a more spacious form'. In Milosz's work this longing found its expression in polymorphism, syncretism, and genological diversity. These general statements are followed by a critical interpretation of his work in terms of disorder, fragmentation, shapelessness, bricolage, disintegration, polyglossia, or even genological aberration and deformation. Traditionally Milosz's varietas was believed to follow the model of the Book or the principle of 'silva rerum'. This article points to a third interpretative key. Milosz's poetic vocation, referred to the writer himself as a 'revelation' and described in the language of the lyric of epiphany or the experience of a medium, is identified as a return to the classical 'genus universum', an idea of one mythical source of all knowledge.

Keywords

EN

MILOSZ CZESLAW - CREATIVE IMPULSE

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Ruch Literacki
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 1(274)
• Pages: 73-82
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Pawelec D.

• D. Pawelec, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski, Miedzywydzialowy Zaklad Badan nad Literatura Religijna, al. Raclawickie 14, 20-950 Lublin, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA02885878