Daugiabalsis blogio diskursas : filosofinės Czeslawo Miloszo atsparos

Abstract

The author of the article explores philosophical preconditions of the Nobel Prize Winner Czeslaw Milosz' literary work with special reference to his essays. Milosz is often called a philosopher by critics; however, he is a writer first and foremost. Thus his bio-graph, or his own life's experience, deals with his own existential problems. It is not accidental then that all his essays are autobiograph ical. Milosz' relationship with philosophy is com plicated, and this is caused by licentia poetica. It is due to this reason that his essays are marked by a polyphonic discourse of evil. This type of discourse is one of the main types found in Milosz' writings. The discourse consists of different 'voices', repre sented by Thomas Aquinas, Simone Weil, William Blake, and Lev Shestov. All of them are dissonant voices, but such a unity of dissonance in discourse is brought about by the theme itself. Evil as a phenomenon is hard to explain, and only the ap parent diversity of voices enables us to speak about it as a real manifestation and not just an abstraction