Miłosz – Merton: układ podwójny

• Authors: Aleksander Gomola

Title variants

EN

MIŁOSZ – MERTON: A BINARY SYSTEM

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

During his life in America Czesław Miłosz met numerous people, but few were more important to him than a man whom he saw only twice – Thomas Merton. Miłosz and Merton corresponded regularly for almost ten years (1959–1968) and their letters, published in Polish and English, display two great minds involved in a deep and sincere dialogue which reveals their most intimate thoughts as well as hopes and fears. Although close, the two remained independent in their thinking and free from false flatteries. The article presents their exchanges on political issues such as the Cold War, the Civil Right Movement or the communist Russia as well as the transformations in the Catholic Church initiated by the Second Vatican Council. Intriguing similarities between their biographies are also mentioned.

Keywords

EN

Czeslaw Milosz; Thomas Merton; the Cold War; the Second Vatican Council; 20th-century epistolography

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Przekładaniec. Półrocznik Katedry UNESCO do Badań nad Przekładem i Komunikacja Miedzykulturowa UJ
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 25
• Pages: 189-202

Dates

online

2012-05-30

Contributors

author

Aleksander Gomola

• Katedra UNESCO do Badań nad Przekładem i Komunikacją Międzykulturową Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/16891864PC.12.013.0440