22-24 November 2021: 1st TRIPLE International Conference (Virtual Event): Empowering Discovery in Open Social Sciences and Humanities

The goal of the conference is to create space for discussing the impact, benefits and challenges of discovery services for the social sciences and humanities ...

IBL PAN Library

At the origin of the IBL PAN Library (created in 1948 together with the Institute) were Jan Michalski’s and Gabriel Korbut’s collections, comprising books of the 19th century and older, often unique. Owing to these collections, as well as to the regular purchase of Polish...

The Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Nowy Świat 72, 00-330 Warsaw
Tel: (+48 22) 826-99-45, 657-28-95
Fax: (+48 22) 826-99-45
E-mail: sekretariat@ibl.waw.pl

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Grzegorz Marzec, Professor

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Generosity of Narrative: Wiesław Myśliwski – A lecture by Dr. Agnieszka Kramkowska-Dąbrowska

Wiesław Myśliwski (b. 1932) is one of the few living writers who made their debut more than fifty years ago and, due to the importance of their works published at that time, belong to the hist...

A Lyrical Poet as a Political Writer. The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz - A talk by Prof. Bozena Shallcross and Prof. Andrzej Karcz

The year 2021 marks 110 years since the birth of Czesław Miłosz and 70 years since he escaped communist Poland to seek political asylum in France. Leading scholars Professors Bożena Shallcross of the University of Chicago, and Andrzej Karcz, PAN, will discuss Milosz’s “The Captive Mind" in the webinar “A Lyrical Poet as a Political Writer" held on June 25.

FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 2021, AT 2:00PM
As the author of The Captive Mind, a book of essays on politics and postwar Polish intellectuals who embraced communism, Czesław Miłosz was labeled "a political writer." While acknowledging that some of his writings were political indeed, he distanced himself from them and defied this arbitrary classification. After all, he considered himself – and he truly was – a lyrical poet. What is the place of The Captive Mind in Miłosz's literary output, then? To answer this question, the lecture will explore the work's main features and discuss some events of the poet's biography and postwar European history.
 

 

 
 
 

 

 

  

 

 

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