After the Fall - On the Writings of Czeslaw Milosz

Tomasz Garbol's book reconstructs Czeslaw Milosz's poetic vision of the world after the Fall. The entry point to this approach is the conviction about the ambivalence of previous interpretations of Milosz's works, especially about his bipolar poetic worldview (his intellectual and existential division between pessimism and ecstasy) and his understanding of the consequences of the Fall (reversible or fatalistic). The book is a literary studies take on the relationship between literature and religion. The main direction is that Milosz's main need in art comes from his yearning for contact with the meaning of reality, which he seeks in the activity of poetic imagination.

List of contents

Poetic vision of the world after the Fall - heritage of Romanticism (Mickiewicz and Norwid) -
challenges of modernism - yearning for presence or contact with the meaning of reality - faith in the
power of poetic imagination - relationship between literature and religion

About the author

Tomasz Garbol, literary scholar at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, the Center of Research on
Religious Literature, and author of monographs about Zbigniew Herbert, ¿Chrzest ziemi¿, and
Czes¿aw Mi¿osz, Mi¿osz. Los, editor of the collection on literature and religion, Literatura a religia.

Product details

• Authors: Tomasz Garbol
• Assisted by: Ryszard Nycz (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9783631816981
• ISBN: 978-3-631-81698-1
• No. of pages: 418
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 33 mm x 215 mm
• Weight: 605 g
• Series: Crossroads; Cross-Roads
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works