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Góry Parnasu Czesława Miłosza jako próba gnostyckiej dystopii

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Miklas-Frankowski J.

Estetyka i Krytyka

2014

issue 4(35)

29-47

Gnostic themes appear in Miłosz’s work from early, catastrophic ‘Three winters’ (1935) to the last summa – ‘Theological Treatise’ (2002). Against this background his unfinished and deserted science-fiction novel ‘The Hills of Parnassus’, published only in 2012, seems to be worthwile. This article attempts to present that Gnosticism is the main source of dystopic creation of the novel. The Gnostic diagnosis in the unfinished novel is related to repeatedly expressed feeling of multi-dimensional alienation and loneliness of man and the pain and suffering which he feels in the alien world whose structure is embedded with evil and cruelty. On one hand the vision of ‘The Hills of Parnassus’ is a vision of an antimodernistic warning, on the other one – it is an extremely pessimistic, futuristic picture of recognition of “the rock-solid order of the world”.

Katastrofizm Czesława Miłosza

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Miklas-Frankowski J.

Studia Gdańskie. Wizje i rzeczywistość

2014

vol. 11

61-72

This article is an attempt to look at Miłosz’es catastrophism from the side that has usually been ommitted in research so far – Miłosz’es own attitude to catastrophism – his individual characteristic. It the reconstruction I used Miłosz’es statements about catastrophism from The Land of Ulro, The Witness of Poetry, Native Realm, from conversations with Renata Gorczyńska („World Traveler”) as well as from a polemic article „Death to Cassandra” from 1945. According to Miłosz catastrophism has a planetary scale. It is the end of one world and civilization and the beginning of a new unknown, global world. Diagno-sis of XX century in his opus magnum The Land of Ulro indicates it’s decadent critical character. Civilization and society have been deprived of life-giving „onto-logical ground” and last only thanks to a phenomenon called by Miłosz „the law of delay”. Though, as per Miłosz, catastrophism is not a hopeless vision. The catastro-phe is necessary to let the broken down world be reborn and return to order. In the conclusion to The Land of Ulro author admits that from Oscar Miłosz he inherited faith (…) in a distant happy era of humanity reborn. And in his last Harvard lecture On Hope Miłosz announced that humanity will enter a new, regenerating dimen-sion, regaining it’s historical awareness and will begin learning of its past, contem-plating cultural heritage left behind by past civilizations and generations.

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1 Estetyka i Krytyka

1 Studia Gdańskie. Wizje i rzeczywistość

2 Miklas-Frankowski J.

2 2014

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Góry Parnasu Czesława Miłosza jako próba gnostyckiej dystopii

Katastrofizm Czesława Miłosza