An interesting summary. Two things seem to come to the foreground in this post;
Miłosz's laughter, and profound seriousness of a deeply spiritual mind. A
sketch of a man genuinely intellectually troubled and looking for a strong and
consistent base to oppose the authoritarian world view - a moral necessity and
obligation, given his times and experiences - yet always ready to accept what
adversity came his way in a sane and civilised manner, without apprtioning to
himself anything that came his way later by common and well justified acclaim.

Little wonder then that he is so disliked in Poland by those who are on the
right, or far left, of the political spectrum. Unable to formulate their views
in a coherent and substantiated fashion they attack Miłosz precisely for what
he is not. As master of the Polish language, shaped by exile and a searching
memory for those values associated with language and thought that rise above
the limitations of history, he seems to be totally incomprehensible to those
whose idea of Poland is a far cry from the norms of civilised behaviour -
informed, among other things, by the very specific nature of the Polish
experience of the last century, which either shaped men, or broke them.