Oscar Miłosz - theoretician of love
ENAt the end of his life, Oscar Miłosz confessed to his younger friend, A. Godoy, that in the realm of the senses he had been living like a prisoner enclosed between four blank walls. Therefore the poet concluded: "I probably am a theoretician of love". It is obvious that by saying "theoretician", Miłosz wanted to stress that he did not practice it. Yet Milosz's creative work as a whole, including his early poems, plays, novels, metaphysical poems and even interpretations of the Apocalypses, reveals his theory of love, which is indeed impressive, being both perfectly harmonious and contradictory. As we know from the poet's life story, the so-called "mystical vision", experienced by him on December 14, 1914, divided his life and creative work into two essentially different parts, sometimes even called "before" and "after" the vision. Therefore we should accordingly distinguish two parts in Milosz's theory of love, two stages of its formation. Leaving out the first part of his theory, we are going to discuss the basic features of the second part after the vision.
