Czeladnik: kilka uwag o Oskarze Miłoszu w życiu i twórczości Czesława Miłosza

ENThe article concentrates on the central idea of Miłosz's work, the search for spirit in the world, and on the central question: is salvation within the reach of man and what is its nature? These matters are considered through Czesław Miłosz's works devoted to his cousin, Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Miłosz (born 28 May 1877 in Czereja, died 2 March 1939 in Fontainebleau near Paris), who was a French poet and metaphysical writer of Polish-Lithuanian-Jewish-Italian origin and the hero of "The Land of Ulro" and many other of Miłosz's essays. Oscar is Czeslaw's guide in the world of conquered despair and bitter love for all creation. The question that should be asked is why the Nobel Laureate, one of the greatest poets of our age, remained all his long life so faithful to Oscar's ideas and why, looking back over his full and successful life, he describes himself (in the late poem "Apprentice", 2002) as a minor poet and an apprentice in relation to Oscar - the master. But master in what craft? Life or art? Czesław Miłosz was certain: undoubtedly in both.