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Anagogicus
Anagogicus

Author(s): Roma Sendyka
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: anthropology; poetry; Miłosz

Summary/Abstract: Miłosz tested assorted forms and genre formulas of the “capacious form” (spanning from the miniature to the treatise) and left an enormous legacy of texts that can be analysed as essayistic. Well aware of the directives concerning this particular genre, he proposed his own version of the personal essay, undergoing alterations in the course of his seventy-years long praxis as an essayist (presumably under the impact of writings by Bolesław Miciński and Stanisław Brzozowski as well as Oriental Zen-inspired literature). A characteristic feature of Miłosz’s attempts is their focus on important problems affecting mankind; as a consequence, the essayistic “man without qualities” becomes relegated to the background and importance is attached to a general perspective, time becomes “summed up history”, and space discloses the features of a palimpsest thanks to which the specific form of such prose can be described as an “anagogic essay”.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 43-49
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Polish