Miłosz w dialogu z literackim centrum świata

• Authors: Stanley S. Bill

Title variants

EN

Miłosz’s Dialogue with the Literary Centre of the World

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In 1986 Bernard Pivot, a French journalist and literary critic, conducted an interview with Miłosz in the television feature called Apostrophes. The conversation was an archetypal example of an encounter between a representative of the “literary centre” and an envoy from what Pascale Casanova later called “une petite littérature”. The present article discusses Miłosz’s contradictory relations with France as a centre of “world’s republic of letters”, against the background of his difficult dialogue with Pivot, and the wider context of Casanova’s theory of inequalities in the literary world. On the one hand, Miłosz felt wiser than French litterateurs, and frequently pointed out to their political naiveness and ignorance of history and the cruel reality of the world. On the other hand, however, Miłosz’s sense of superiority over Western culture was always dialectically linked to the other side of the coin: the rage of a provincial poet at the headquarters of the cultural and economical power.

Keywords

PL

Czesław Miłosz; France; Pascale Casanova; theory of “world republic of letters”; centre and periphery

EN

Czesław Miłosz; France; Pascale Casanova; theory of “world republic of letters”; centre and periphery; Czesław Miłosz; France; Pascale Casanova; theory of “world republic of letters”; centre and periphery

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 20
• Pages: 137-148

Dates

published

2012-01-01

Contributors

author

Stanley S. Bill

• Northwestern University.

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/pspsl.2012.20.8