Rosja mentalna Miłosza
Czesław Miłosz’s Russia as a Mental Concept

Summary/Abstract: Czesław Miłosz’s Russia is shown as the poet’s first (wartime and revolutionary) image of the world, in connection with a Manichean concept of nature and history, through the prism of fatalism (the poet’s ‘eastern particle’) which got activated in Warsaw under Nazi occupation, in light of historic gnosis by T. Kroński and from the standpoint of an émigré in Europe and America. The thesis is unfolded whereby Russia is a component of the Noble-Prize-winner’s identity, which is subject to individuation.

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