Dwujęzyczność według Czesława Miłosza

Abstract

The article presents the views of Miłosz about the role of language as a carrier of cultural memory. It discusses the relationship between poetry and ontology. The author lists the reasons and consequences of the rejection of the Biblical and Renaissance anthropocentrism in European culture. The course of this ontic disaster is analysed as a crisis of language and humanity, which was reduced to animal level based on the evolution theory. The author of the article demonstrated that the biopoetics of Miłosz is an imaging technique that reveals the scientic origins of European totalitarisms. He also argues that the animalisation, and in particular the language of entomology, were used by the poet to present Darwinism as a source of inspiration for new ideological beliefs. He mentions that, according to the Nobel Prize winner, natural inspirations transformed European ideologies into mass destruction programs.