Słowo wstępne : miejsca autobiograficzne Czesława Miłosza
LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Autobiografija; Autobiografinės vietos; Erdvė; Kultūrinė mitologija; Atsiminimai; Vieta; Česlovas Milošas; Autobiographical Places; Autobiography; Cultural Mythology; Czeslaw Milosz; Czeslov Milosz; Memories; Place; Space.
ENAn autobiographical place is understood as an image arising in reference to three things: to creative output, to biography and to defined places in geographical space, considered along with their cultural symbolism. In order for an autobiographical place to emerge, two conditions are necessary: the autobiographical element and an imagination that is sensitive to topographical realia. Such places may be either stable, observed as they are, on the spot, in the situation of being at home there, or disturbed: remembered from a distance, only imagined, removed (when the emigrant accepts a new place without renouncing the old one), chosen (as a place of refuge visited only occasionally) and touched (for a short time, but so as to leave a trace in the creative output). In Milosz's case, the creation of a remembered native place (Lithuania) is the most important, but the removed type also appears (California), as does the touched (Żuławy, because of his mother's death) and to a lesser degree the imagined (the spaces of Russia, in connection with the figure of his father, in the Chronicles). [From the publication]
