Open AccessCensorship Towards Czesław Miłosz in Poland in the Fifties after Having Chosen the Emigration
Author(s) -
Marzena Woźniak-Łabieniec
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
acta universitatis lodziensis. folia litteraria polonica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2353-1908
pISSN - 1505-9057
DOI - 10.18778/1505-9057.37.08
Subject(s) - emigration , censorship , politics , poetry , censoring (clinical trials) , publishing , government (linguistics) , power (physics) , history , literature , political science , economic history , art , law , economics , philosophy , linguistics , econometrics , physics , quantum mechanics
This article shows the outline of problems connected with censoring Czesław Miłosz’s literary output in Poland in the 1950s, when the poet breaks off with the national government and chooses political asylum in France, becoming an émigré. The article looks into (in the space of decade) the periods of particularly tightened control towards Miłosz, shows how the censorship was tightening and relaxing when it came to his name. In the Polish October several poems and an excerpt from the novel The Seizure of Power was published, though – despite publishing advertisements – none of the poet’s books came out.