Open AccessCzesław Miłosz wobec przemocy i wojny
Author(s) -
Marta Kowerko-Urbańczyk
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
bibliotekarz podlaski
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2544-8900
pISSN - 1640-7806
DOI - 10.36770/bp.655
Subject(s) - poetry , solidarity , context (archaeology) , narrative , shadow (psychology) , relation (database) , history , world war ii , literature , judaism , sociology , art , political science , religious studies , theology , law , philosophy , psychology , politics , psychoanalysis , archaeology , database , computer science
This article reviews Irena Grudzińska-Gross’s book Miłosz i długi cień wojny [Milosz and the Long Shadow of War], which was published by Pogranicze in 2020. The reviewer analyses the definition of violence and its relation to Polish narratives of wartime solidarity seen as heroism. To this end, she examines the work of Czesław Miłosz, written during the Second World War, and later texts thematising the war experience. An additional layer of the publication is the poet’s take on the Jewish question – both in the context of Miłosz’s poetic works and the subsequent discussions they provoked. The author, taking into account Miłosz’s autobiogeographical predispositions, also analyses the changing images of Warsaw in his works as a space where the poet spent most of the war. For this reason, she examines the poet’s attitude to the Warsaw Uprising and the public perception of his decision not to join the cause.