Article 2025
Authors / editors: Anna Krawczyk
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
This article provides an brief overview of the first translations of Czesław Miłosz’s works into Lithuanian, published up to 1990. Focusing on the human aspect of translation, it examines the translators, their motivations, and their personal connections with Miłosz. Using archiv…
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2025.16-07 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Article 2023
Authors / editors: Marta Skwara
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The author analyzes the connections between Miłosz's poetry and his translation work based on his translations and interpretations of the poetry of Wallace Stevens and Chinese poets, especially the poem “Another Spring” by Tu Fu. The subject of particular interest is Miłosz's vis…
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2023.14-11 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Article 2021
Authors / editors: Esther Makwin Ephraim
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
This paper explores religion beliefs as the cultural topoi connecting the People of Gine in Lithuania to the People of Umuofia community in Nigerian via the books Things Fall Apart and The Issa Valley by Chinua Achebe and Czeslaw Milosz respectively. Both writers have earned glob…
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2021.12-13 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Article 2021
Authors / editors: Luiza Rzymowska
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The Doll and The Pearl by Olga Tokarczuk, published by Wydawnictwo Literackie in 2002, is an essay on reading The Doll by Bolesław Prus. The author of the article investigates how and for what purpose the writer connected two literary works vastly distant in time and genetically …
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2021.12-04 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Article 2018
Authors / editors: Stanisław Chankowski
Published in: Nowa Krytyka
The work tries to analyze how ideology, understood in agreement with the marxist tradition, inhibits any structural social change. The first part of the work is devoted to a description of the capitalist reality in which the well known ideology has been created. In the next chapt…
DOI: 10.18276/nk.2018.41-06 · ISSN: 0867-647X
Article 2014
Authors / editors: Aleksandra Wilkus
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The present paper offers a comparative analysis of the Norwegian translation of
a poem called Campo di Fiori (1943), written by Czesław Miłosz. The study focuses
on how certain themes and poetic elements, selected from the author’s individual
aesthetics, are understood and rea…
ISSN: 2081-8718
Article 2014
Authors / editors: Jolanta Słoboda
Published in: Studia Językoznawcze
In the descriptions of nature dominates two semantic categories of the fl ora’s descriptions.
The fi rst one involves forests and the second: gardens and meadows. The most
frequently used colours in the linguistic creation of the world of fl ora are: green, yellow,
gold and re…
ISSN: 1730-4180
Article 2013
Authors / editors: Marta Skwara
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
Miłosz’s recently discovered letters to Paul Engle, the director of The Iowa Writing
Program at the University of Iowa, give an impulse to a more comprehensive discussion
on Miłosz’s literary tastes and literary opinions expressed both in his private and public
writings. Havin…
ISSN: 2081-8718
Article 2013
Authors / editors: Piotr Karwowski
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
This paper compares poetic strategies of Czesław Miłosz and Philip Larkin in
the context of the sublime—category constitutive for the modern aesthetics. Kantian
sublime implies the exclusion of cognitive and ethical subjectivity of the so-called wild
man. According to Kant, “s…
ISSN: 2081-8718
Article 2013
Authors / editors: Ewa Rajewska
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The authoress discusses the uses of the concept of a barbarian as a pose, a mock
self-diagnosis of an Eastern European intellectual experiencing the West. She traces the
notion of a “barbarian” in Zbigniew Herbert’s book of essays Barbarzyńca w ogrodzie
(“Barbarian in the Gard…
ISSN: 2081-8718