Oscar Milosz
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Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz (Lithuanian: Oskaras Milašius) (1877-1939) was a French-Lithuanian writer and Lithuanian diplomat.
Oskaras Milašius is a paradoxical and interesting phenomenon in Lithuanian culture. He never lived in Lithuania but was born and spent his childhood in Cereja (near Mogilev, Belarus) and graduated from Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris. His longing for his fatherland was more metaphysical. Having to choose between two conflicting countries — Lithuania and Poland — he preferred Lithuania which for him was an idea even more than a fatherland. In 1920 when France recognized the independence of Lithuania, he was appointed officially as Chargé d’Affaires for Lithuania. Milosz collected Lithuanian folk tales, wrote fiction, drama, and essays. He exerted a great influence on his younger cousin, Czesław Miłosz, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980. Largely neglected during his lifetime, Milosz has increasingly come to be considered as an important figure in French poetry.
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Some of his works in French:
- 1899 : Le Poème des Décadences (poetry)
- 1906 : Les Sept Solitudes (poetry)
- 1910 : L'Amoureuse Initiation (novel)
- 1911 : Les Éléments (poetry)
- 1913 : Miguel Manara. Mystère en six tableaux. (play)
- ? : Les Arcanes
- 1922 : La Confession de Lemuel
Works translated into English:
- 1928, a collection of 26 Lithuanian songs;
- 1930, Lithuanian Tales and Stories;
- 1933, Lithuanian Tales;
- 1937, The origin of the Lithuanian Nation, in which he tried to persuade the reader that Lithuanians have the same origin as Jews from the Iberian Peninsula.
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