%0 Journal Article
%T Miłosz: On Circuit
%A Gutorow, Jacek
%J Przekładaniec
%V Issues in English
%R 10.4467/16891864ePC.13.018.1207
%N Issue 25/2011– Between Miłosz and Milosz
%P 91-108
%K ambivalence, modernity, abstraction, reality
%@ 1425-6851
%D 2013
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/milosz-on-circuit
%X 
	This paper undertakes a critical examination of Czesław Miłosz’s negative
	responses to contemporary art in general, and American modernist poetry in particular.
	It focuses on Miłosz’s interpretations of Cézanne’s statements and Wallace Stevens’s
	poems, and concludes that the Polish poet’s inability and unwillingness to appreciate
	contemporary art results from his recognition and approval of mimetic representation
	as the only strategy which guarantees rationality, certainty, a sense of metaphysical
	hierarchy and which is informed by them. Quoted are Miłosz’s somewhat angry
	reactions to the concepts of abstract, non-fi gurative art as well as his words of
	admiration for the representational moment apparently inherent in both poetry and
	painting. Parenthetically, the paper points to Miłosz’s repressed feelings of existential
	and epistemological ambivalence, arguably the most valuable aspect of his work.