MILOSZ'S EVILS (Biesy Milosza)

• Authors: Tischner Lukasz
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The present article is an attempt at making an inventory of the pictures of devil in Czeslaw Milosz's literary creativity. In the chronological order (from a juvenile text Poems for the Posessed to end with the poem Late Old Age ) the author shows a fixed presence of the figures of devil in Milosz's writings. The devilish problem is also evoked indirectly through the records of the 'demonic' state (in Kierkegaard's view) which in Milosz's texts usually takes shape of torment of acedia. Tischner therefore proves that Milosz's devils are for the most part ostentatiously anachronistic or amusing but reveal temptations which Milosz himself faced. Most important of those temptations are urge for dualism that shatters the hope of redemption, urge of historiosophically justified immoralism, urge to doubt into free will, urge for pride and vanity, urge for heartlessness, and ultimately paralysing awareness of one's own sinfulness which is accompanied by urge for sadness and despair.

Keywords

EN

CZESLAW MILOSZ; MILOSZ'S 'LATE OLD AGE'; MILOSZ'S 'POEMS FOR THE POSESSED'

• Publisher: Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
• Journal: Pamiętnik Literacki
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 102
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 85-98
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Tischner Lukasz

• Lukasz Tischner, Jagiellonian University of Cracow, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA096219