Darwin w "Ziemi Ulro"

• Authors: Zach Joanna

Title variants

EN

Darwin in the "Land of Ulro"

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

The Czesław Miłosz’s involvement in the natural sciences, and his longlasting argument with the theory of evolution has deeply penetrated his poetry and prose; hence the references to Darwin and Darwinism in many of his literary works. In my article, however, I focus on “a hidden presence” of Darwin in Miłosz’s writings, a continuous debate which underlines various attempts of the Nobel Prize winner to capture the situation of man in the modern world. Thus the Darwinism with its many social and philosophical consequences becomes one of the central points of the Miłosz’s anthropological project. Each of his books gives us a different perspective on the roots of what he calls “the European nihilism”, and a different analysis of the modern conflict between religious imagination and the image of man created by natural science.

Keywords

EN

Czesław Miłosz’s "Land of Ulro"; Charles Darwin; Polish literature

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Bielsko-Bialski
• Journal: Świat i Słowo
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 2010, nr 1(14)
• Pages: 135-144

Dates

published

2010-06

Contributors

author

Zach Joanna

• Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków

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