Эccе чеслава милоша: полифонизм мира и личности
Czesław Miłosz’s Essay: The Polyphony of the World and Personality

Summary/Abstract: It can be argued that essayism, as merging of philosophical, aesthetic and scientific thought, is a specific property of contemporary culture. One of the most prominent essayists of the last century is Czesław Miłosz, whose aesthetics is based on the interaction between personality and self-identifying word, where self-identification should be treated as a movement towards the discovery of meaning. The article relates the method and character of Miłosz’s essayism to the concepts of deconstruction and to the issues of sign, language and text. Deconstruction as a strategy of textual analysis is used in the light of Jacques Derrida’s ideas. As an initial intention, the literary orientation may be employed: essay may be treated as a spiritual, transcendental and empirical experience of the writer. The reality with its details, reflected in Miłosz’s essay, confirms the temporariness of the being-consciousness; the subjectivity of the artist acquires independent creative meaning. Miłosz also strives to optimize the meaning of his text. He makes presuppositions on the state of his reader’s knowledge and his level of preparation to trust oneself to an external creative work. Though multiple layers of meaning constitute the conditions for the essayist’s creative work, the becoming of relations between the author and the world is most significant in Miłosz’s essays.

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