Milos and a long shadow of war. Grudzinskaya-Gross Irena

The work of the Nobel Prize Laureate Cheslav Milos (1911–2004) is autobiographical, therefore the author considers his poems, novels, letters, interviews and essays not only as literature, but also as evidence. Grudzinskaya-Gross is looking for in them descriptions of events that formed ideas and feelings related to violence and suffering, as well as the thoughts and conclusions extracted by Milos from this experience. And since the current public life takes place in the shadow of World War II, the author is trying to find examples of how to think about violence present in our everyday life, and about the threats that it gives rise to.

“Milos was a poet who knew To convey the cruelty of war without replacing it with comforting cliches. His assessment of military events and actions was different from the one that the official Polish policy in relation to history today represents. This discrepancy is one of the causes of this book. "