Historia literatury polskiej by Czesław Miłosz

Authors

  • Magdalena Piotrowska-Grot University of Silesia in Katowice

Abstract

The author examines creative principles of writings on literary history by Czesław Miłosz. Historia literatury polskiej is a bridge between traditional thinking about history of literature and redefining this issue. His proposition mirrors the creator’s loose thinking about central and secondary issues and becomes in a way a post-modern textbook for foreigners. Miłosz’s method, also utilized in his books Mój wiek XX and Wyprawa w Dwudziestolecie is based on specific, individual solutions; however, in order to see them, one must analyze the writer’s historical and creative method – suspending the discourse between literacy and orality. The history of literature described by Miłosz is clearly not a finite, complete synthesis, but rather – as H.R. Jauss put it – a provocation towards further research.

Published

2014-12-29

How to Cite

Piotrowska-Grot, M. (2014). Historia literatury polskiej by Czesław Miłosz. Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne [Silesian Journal of Polish Studies], 5(1-2), 125–140. Retrieved from https://trrest.vot.pl/ojsus/index.php/SSP/article/view/3340