„Proroctwo ukryte pod szyfrem”. Oskar i Czesław Miłoszowie, dajmonion i poetycka inicjacja

Abstract

The author of the article analysed the works by Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004), Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner, and his cousin Oskar Miłosz (1877–1939), a Lithuanian poet who wrote in French. There were numerous similarities between these two poets: genetic, biographical, and between their personalities. The author refers to the theoretical inspirations in the thoughts of Harold Bloom. He notes that the mutual interest and affection between both writers from the Miłosz family was evoked not by the family ties and the shared surname, but by the awareness of their own strangeness and uniqueness in both poets. The author shows how Oskar Miłosz will become “the most important poetic and spiritual master”, the “admired teacher” for Czesław Miłosz, and a guide, whose presence the latter will continue to feel for all his life. He was the one to whom the poet dedicated his last poem before he died, “Dobroć” (Goodness), written on the 22nd of December 2003.