Czesławas Miłoszas apie avangardą ir jo šiandienines pasekmes ; Iš lenkų k. vertė A. Radzevičius

Abstract

The 1920s and 1930s, the period when the "Weltanschaung" of Czesław Miłosz formed, were the times of crisis for Modernity in Poland. The most fundamental problems of twentieth century Polish literature took shape against the background of the rise of totalitarianism and mass culture. In the rise and fall of the avant-garde currents, the most significant hopes and dangers of modern creative effort can be perceived. The crisis of individualism, manifested in the rejection of the tragic side of existence, resulted in an escape from freedom and, at the same time, lad to Pan European barbarism and the bizarre coincidence of both indifference and the cult of entertainment, Miłosz was to become a poet, who offered one of the most important perspectives on the modern crisis of man and art. His rejection of the avant-garde marks not only the begining of his polemics with the great utopias and modern civilization but also initiates his defense of spiritual resources for shaping human identity [...]