CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ’S “PIESEK PRZYDROŻNY” AND “ABECADŁO” AS THE PICTURE OF THE 20th CENTURY

The article aims to study the poetics evolution of a great Polish poet and prose writer, Nobel prize winner Czesław Miłosz towards a fundamentally new comprehensive literary form: from “Piesek Przydrożny” (“Roadside Dog” 1997) to “Abecadło” (“Milosz`s ABC`s” 1997) and “Inne Abecadło” (“A Further...

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Main Author: Luiza K. Oliander
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Language:English
Published: Alfred Nobel University Publisher 2022-12-01
Series:Вісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні науки
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description The article aims to study the poetics evolution of a great Polish poet and prose writer, Nobel prize winner Czesław Miłosz towards a fundamentally new comprehensive literary form: from “Piesek Przydrożny” (“Roadside Dog” 1997) to “Abecadło” (“Milosz`s ABC`s” 1997) and “Inne Abecadło” (“A Further Alphabet” 1998). The purpose stimulates the usage of the analytical, hermeneutics and receptive methodology, as well as textual analysis. It is stressed that the years of this work publication indicate the writerєі success in his determined search for a form that would be capable, containing immense life material, countless events, lives and artistic-philosophical reflections, to create the picture of the 20th century. The paper highlights why “Piesek Przydrożny” does not meet any requirements for containing the unlimited number of life facts within a text. We’ve noted the organizing function of Piesek in the system of a fictional unity. Moving freely, Piesek made it possible for Miłosz to create a certain series of philosophical pieces (“Ubóstwo wyobraźni”, “Wzniosłość”, “Pieśń dziadowsku”, “Со upadek”, “Powieść”, “Gombrowicz”, “Polski literat”) and several tragic essays – “Ojcowskie kłopoty”, “Zmartwienia historyka” and others. It is proven that while the form of this book contains a variety of material, it still cannot give Miłosz the absolute freedom he was striving for. The writer was determined to find the form which would, according to him, “allow for much freedom”, “not pursue beauty but just register facts”. Considering Е. Brazgovskaya’s findings, the productivity of the alphabet (аbecadło) is proved. The paper expresses the idea that one can treat the alphabet (аbecadło) as a kind of a memoir genre. The innovative structure of “Abecadło”, consisting of essays-novels, is analyzed. The article traces the associative connections which cement 200 essays into a single entity, creating the image of the epoch.
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spelling doaj-art-3ff3b9d29bd94de8b704a444b830d9032025-08-20T03:15:43ZengAlfred Nobel University PublisherВісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні науки2523-44632523-47492022-12-01224829210.32342/2523-4463-2022-2-24-7CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ’S “PIESEK PRZYDROŻNY” AND “ABECADŁO” AS THE PICTURE OF THE 20th CENTURYLuiza K. Oliander 0Lesya Ukrainka Volun National UniversityThe article aims to study the poetics evolution of a great Polish poet and prose writer, Nobel prize winner Czesław Miłosz towards a fundamentally new comprehensive literary form: from “Piesek Przydrożny” (“Roadside Dog” 1997) to “Abecadło” (“Milosz`s ABC`s” 1997) and “Inne Abecadło” (“A Further Alphabet” 1998). The purpose stimulates the usage of the analytical, hermeneutics and receptive methodology, as well as textual analysis. It is stressed that the years of this work publication indicate the writerєі success in his determined search for a form that would be capable, containing immense life material, countless events, lives and artistic-philosophical reflections, to create the picture of the 20th century. The paper highlights why “Piesek Przydrożny” does not meet any requirements for containing the unlimited number of life facts within a text. We’ve noted the organizing function of Piesek in the system of a fictional unity. Moving freely, Piesek made it possible for Miłosz to create a certain series of philosophical pieces (“Ubóstwo wyobraźni”, “Wzniosłość”, “Pieśń dziadowsku”, “Со upadek”, “Powieść”, “Gombrowicz”, “Polski literat”) and several tragic essays – “Ojcowskie kłopoty”, “Zmartwienia historyka” and others. It is proven that while the form of this book contains a variety of material, it still cannot give Miłosz the absolute freedom he was striving for. The writer was determined to find the form which would, according to him, “allow for much freedom”, “not pursue beauty but just register facts”. Considering Е. Brazgovskaya’s findings, the productivity of the alphabet (аbecadło) is proved. The paper expresses the idea that one can treat the alphabet (аbecadło) as a kind of a memoir genre. The innovative structure of “Abecadło”, consisting of essays-novels, is analyzed. The article traces the associative connections which cement 200 essays into a single entity, creating the image of the epoch.https://phil.duan.edu.ua/images/PDF/2022/2/7.pdfdialogueаbecadłodiscoursemethodologynarrative system
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CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ’S “PIESEK PRZYDROŻNY” AND “ABECADŁO” AS THE PICTURE OF THE 20th CENTURY
Вісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні науки
dialogue
аbecadło
discourse
methodology
narrative system
title CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ’S “PIESEK PRZYDROŻNY” AND “ABECADŁO” AS THE PICTURE OF THE 20th CENTURY
title_full CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ’S “PIESEK PRZYDROŻNY” AND “ABECADŁO” AS THE PICTURE OF THE 20th CENTURY
title_fullStr CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ’S “PIESEK PRZYDROŻNY” AND “ABECADŁO” AS THE PICTURE OF THE 20th CENTURY
title_full_unstemmed CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ’S “PIESEK PRZYDROŻNY” AND “ABECADŁO” AS THE PICTURE OF THE 20th CENTURY
title_short CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ’S “PIESEK PRZYDROŻNY” AND “ABECADŁO” AS THE PICTURE OF THE 20th CENTURY
title_sort czeslaw milosz s piesek przydrozny and abecadlo as the picture of the 20th century
topic dialogue
аbecadło
discourse
methodology
narrative system
url https://phil.duan.edu.ua/images/PDF/2022/2/7.pdf
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