RAŠYMO INTEGRALUMAS CZESŁAWO MIŁOSZO ESEISTIKOJE
INTEGRITY OF SCRIPTURE IN THE ESSAYISTIC DISCOURSE OF CZESLAW MILOSZ

Summary/Abstract: Essayistic discourse is a special quality of contemporary culture. The union of philosophy, literature and science can be argued to be present here. In the paper, the method and quality of the essayism of Czeslaw Milosz is related to the ideas of deconstruction and to the issues of sign, language and text. An essayist discusses the object generally, a species, but not the typical features. In essay, the aim is not the interpretation of an object in the sign but maximum formalization of its reflection, i.e. the achievement of the ideal form. In his essays, Czeslaw Milosz concentrates on the language as a way of conceptualization: he sympathizes and he takes understanding of language as one of the core intellectual concepts of contemporary culture. He sees the sign as an autonomous reality with its interior structure. Any text is shaped by word and exists “in itself and for itself”. An essay offers a convenient generic space for the competition of reality and relativity, for the introduction of text into life and vice versa. The world is enclosed in the literary work, and the word is inseparable from the concept. According to Czeslaw Milosz, language is in special relationship with the world of culture. He admits that in specific cultures specific rules of linguistic games and specific mythologies, both cultural and ideological, exist. The treatment of a language as a phenomenon giving birth is also understandable to Czeslaw Milosz. Pretentious movement of the idea proceeding through a number of various facts, phenomena and ideas are typical of the philosopher. It requires erudition and activates thinking; it shapes its reader-recipient and involves him into the specific relations of play.

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