Litwa Miłosza, Litwa Konwickiego. Rzecz o polskich zmaganiach z prowincją
Lithuania of Miłosz, Lithuania of Konwicki. On the Polish Strife with the Provinces

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the intellectual, spiritual and ar- tistic strife ofMiłosz and Konwicki with their birth- places. The first two of the article’sfive parts deal with the path traversed by Miłosz, spanning from re- bellion and the rejection of the private homeland as well as certain forms of Polish culture that assumed shape in the Eastern Borderland, the re-evaluation of the poet’sspiritual and intellectual stand during the early stage of his life as an émigré, up to becoming co- nvinced about the value of the home and the “small homeland”. The third fragment of the text shows how Konwicki painstakingly constructed his own cultural lineage. Part four – Time of Cultural Quests – formula- tes five basic questions around which both authors built the identity discourse of their own private home- land and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The last part – Time for Stories – demonstrates how the writings of Miłosz, Konwicki and many other authors create ate- xtual space, in which the Wilno past is outlined as amodel for the coexistence of cultures and languages and becomes amodel of heterogeneous culture.

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