Чеслав Мілош і Томас Венцлова: дві еміграційні проєкції Вільна/Вільнюса

Abstract

The article examines the correspondence between Czesław Miłosz and Tomas Venclova in the aspect of a public declaration of views on the problem of Polish-Lithuanian understanding. The free-flowing story about the current state of this important dialogue was the result of the synthesis of an autobiographical narrative with an analysis of the historical situation, a reproduction of the past and the present in the format of a personal destiny. The letters are written from the perspective of emigrants, which causes the ambivalence of the narrative technique. On the one hand, this is a reproduction of the palimpsest city in the context of its centuries-old history, on the other hand, it is an emotional subjective approach to the description of the small homeland. Built on the play of these plans, the story allows the authors to balance, without adhering to a certain ideology, the concept of being Vilna / Vilnius in the cultural geography of Eastern Europe.