Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9788395669644-002
Century Gulliver
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9788395669644-006
As an officer of the Consulate, Miłosz was assigned the task of maintaining relations with Poles living abroad, building a favorable image of Poland, and later – upon assuming the post of second secretary at the Embassy in Washington – organizing events, developing contacts with academic and artistic circles, and participating in American and Polish educational and cultural events. These duties involved giving public talks to various audiences. The poet’s relations with the Polish diaspora were marked by reserve and distrust. This was especially true of post-war émigrés, who did not recognize the government in Warsaw, and boycotted the activities of its diplomacy.144 Establishing closer relations with this group was hampered by Miłosz’s divergent attitude toward pre-war Poland. Perhaps the sharpest comment regarding this polarization of positions is found in the note he wrote on New Year’s Eve, 1945:
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9788395669644-007
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9788395669644-009
front of a microphone. The fact that such a development is possible is easy to see by observing in the march of the middle class such organizations as the Ku-Klux-Klan, the American Legion, veterans’ associations, and the Knights of Columbus. One look at their faces is enough to reach the conclusion that these people are strangers to any limits of sophisticated taste outlined by the mandarins, and that they are ready to throw at the stake both paintings of the communist Picasso, and books by the aristocrat Eliot. In this light, both the Bollingen Prize, and the fight against the poetic dictatorship of Eliot and his followers show their multi-layered nature.638
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9788395669644-013
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9788395669644-008
Miłosz told Anna Frajlich
For thirty years now, I have worked with the Literary Institute in Paris, headed by Jerzy Giedroyc, and a contributor to the monthly Kultura, published by this Institute. Almost all my books appeared there, and this is something that, of course, allows me to speak with some authority about the activities of this entire Institute and publishing house. On the other hand, I have never written for Radio Free Europe during these thirty years. I am an American citizen, I pay taxes, this is an institution funded from my taxes, very useful as a source of information. If it were up to me, I would definitely increase its funding loans, but I thought there was a certain hierarchy that needed to be maintained. That is, I have never had a great desire to be a journalist. (Rozmowy polskie 1999–2004 [Polish Discussions 1999–2004], 270–271)
三十年来,我一直在巴黎的文学研究所工作,由耶日·吉德罗伊克领导,并为该研究所出版的《文化》月刊撰稿。我几乎所有的书都是在那里出版的,当然,这使我能够以某种权威的口吻谈论整个研究所和出版社的活动。另一方面,在这三十年里,我从未为自由欧洲电台写过文章。我是美国公民,我纳税,这是一个由我的税收资助的机构,作为信息来源非常有用。如果由我来决定,我肯定会增加它的融资贷款,但我认为需要保持一定的等级制度。也就是说,我从来没有想过要成为一名记者。(Rozmowy polskie 1999-2004[波兰讨论1999-2004],270-271)
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9788395669644-012
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9788395669644-017
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9788395669644-011
Power decides which objects appear in the field of consciousness (…) and social coercion is internalized through introjection and turns into internal coercion. (…) Power disperses and materializes; permeating social relations, it determines the smallest, seemingly neutral behaviors. Binding to knowledge, it establishes a binding image of the world, defining the criteria of truth and falsehood. 739
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