Aleksander Fiut
Konteksty Kultury, Volume 19 Issue 1, 2022, pp. 124 - 141
https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.22.011.15392The subject of reflection in this paper is the epistolary dialogue between Czesław Miłosz and Tadeusz Różewicz about their writings. It is expressed not only in direct opinions and evaluations of individual works, but also in the preliminary, later modified versions of poems that are found in the letters, all of which allows us to look at the relationship of the two poets from a slightly different perspective. Miłosz, who in the era of Socialist Realism played the role of mentor to Różewicz, over time transforms into his insightful reader and polemicist. Różewicz matures from his role as a student, gradually turning into an equal partner. Both emphasize in their friendly and long-lasting epistolary dialogue the similarities and differences in their worldviews and their poetic practices. Of particular importance in this respect are Miłosz’s poems – “Różewicz” and “Unde malum,” and Różewicz’s – “Myrmekologia (dalszy ciąg bajki o Guciu zaczarowanym)” and “Zaćmienie światła.” While Miłosz remains the poet of antinomy, Różewicz seems to be the poet of paradox.
Aleksander Fiut
Konteksty Kultury, Volume 18 Issue 4, 2021, pp. 611 - 622
https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.21.051.15202Aleksander Fiut
Wielogłos, Issue 4 (22) 2014: Czytanie Błońskiego, 2014, pp. 75 - 78
https://doi.org/10.4467/2084395XWI.14.049.3458
Błoński’s Zmiana warty (Change of Guards), a book of critical essays published in 1961, can be read now as well as a historical document of its time, as a process of shaping individual writing style and beliefs of the future outstanding critic and professor of Polish literature. Błoński analyses few myths present in the literature of his generation: myth of autonomy, myth of misfortune, erotic myths and myth of lower class. Assessing critically the condition of the literature of his time, he sees in it the consequences of hidden crises of the whole European literature caused by experience of totalitarianism. He considers himself a kind of outcast.