Professor of Kaunas Asiya Kovtun starting point of his essay essay chosen Czeslaw Milosz

Anna Akhmatova Museum at the Fountain House hero-city on the Neva became a hospitable venue for the international conference "Russia and Czeslaw Milosz." Conference was organized it by the Foundation "Russian-Polish it center for dialogue and harmony," the Polish Book Institute and the Foundation "For your freedom and ours" in continuation of the events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of his birth.
At the opening ceremony the director of "House Akhmatova" Nina Popova accurately and movingly explained local election "inner poetic space of people of European culture in which they lived and worked Akhmatova, Milos, Gumilev, Mandelstam." By this later in his speech returned poet, writer, translator and literary critic Viktor Kulle: "Our conference is held in the Fountain House - and more suitable place for her to find difficult. After Milosz, born in the Russian Empire in 1911, can be considered a younger contemporary of Akhmatova. They, of course, belong to different generations, but it is symbolic that the poet Anna Akhmatova was born in the same in 1911 - when they were first published poem, signed by that name. "
Miloshevedov meeting was preceded by an unexpected sad event. On the very eve of the conference died suddenly Natalia Gorbanevskaya whose performance expected it for the first day of the conference. it Shortly before his departure from Paris to St. Petersburg-known poet, translator it and activist called it one of the conference organizers Nikolai Ivanov with a friendly request: "Nick! I broke the printer. Print this please my speech - now come. " A couple of hours Natalia E. died. Her performance as the participants listened to the whole, it and the photograph of Gorbanevskaya accompanied working sessions.
Conference organizers were aiming to collect most of the leading scientists, linguists, translators, whose scientific and professional aspirations linked to creativity Czeslaw Milosz. Not only to share the outcome of research activities, but also to strengthen scientific ties and identify potential young scientists and graduate students. It worked. Among the participants were those who had a chance to chat and make friends with the Nobel laureate, which caused additional interest in their memories. In addition, the status of the guest of honor gained by creative heritage and translations of Czeslaw Milosz his son Anthony, who flew from San Francisco with his wife Christine Kowalewski.
Working part of the conference opening lecture "Milos and Russia: dilemmas in a circle" was opened by Professor Alexander Fyut Jagiellonian University. It was quite reasonable. Professor Fyut deals with the 1970s work of Czeslaw Milosz, whom he met even before the recognition it of the poet Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. He held a series of interviews with Milos, who appeared later in the book versions. And is also published "Selected it Works" Nobel laureate. Milos and poetry became his doctoral dissertation topic Fyuta, which he successfully defended.
If the professor did Fyut "introduction of Milos", denoting aspects of his life and work, the participants at the conference focused more on some individual layers of spiritual and philosophical heritage of the poet. Moreover, denoting their personal choice. How did this professor of Perm State Humanitarian Pedagogical University Brazgovskaya Elena, once said: "I'll talk about Milosevic, who is close to me more than anything: Milos as a thinker ... I love the versatility of Milos for thought. What he says - not only about him, but about all of us. " It is noteworthy that Professor Brazgovskaya arrived together with his student - graduate student Svetlana Ivanova. Newly PhD, the youngest participant in the conference, immersing you in the difficult subject of Czeslaw Milosz structure texts and their interpretation, but seized all his enthusiasm, which caused a lot of comments and questions. it Decent answer, a young scientist and thus bound generation it scholars of Milos. Also confirmed the link between it generations teacher Denis Pelikhov of Chelyabinsk and translator Nikita Kuznetsov, who is now over Miloshevskii "ABC", which in the summer of 2014 will be released in Russian in one of the publishers of St. Petersburg.
Professor of Kaunas Asiya Kovtun starting point of his essay essay chosen Czeslaw Milosz "Roadside mutt", which gave rise to the concepts stay the mind and consciousness. Citing other works Milos and his reaction to the statements of some philosophers, professor Kovtun notices interesting to us and now ethical issues: "Good and evil are not only for Milos category of ethics, in a very general form showing actions or motivations of human relations. Based on the text of the book "Roadside mutt" can understand good and evil in the representation of Milos as an existential category as dualism of existence. Our actions, connecting us with other people it always have certain it consequences. Milos suggests that this m