The Topos of Exile. Wittlin, Gombrowicz and Miłosz – the Review of Romantic Traditions

The Second Great Emigration, shaped in a historical context different from the one of the nineteenth century, inherited after the first one the romantic myth of exile. The main goal of the article is to present what Polish writers: Józef Wittlin, Witold Gombrowicz and Czesław Miłosz thought about exile, how they understood the concept of exile and how they defined the problem of artistic communication in the situation of exile and what were their methods for upgrading the romantic context.