Definicja szczęscia według Stefanii Kossowskiej
A Definition of Happiness by Stefania Kossowska

Summary/Abstract: Discussion of a recently published collection of letters written by Stefania Kossowska (1909–2003), literary critic, prose writer and columnist who stayed from World War 2 onwards in London as an émigré and was the last editor of Wiadomości weekly, to poet Anna Frajlich (born 1942) who lived since 1970 in New York. The letters’ diversified themes make us aware of Ms. Kossowska’s participation in cultural life of the Polish Diaspora in London, her views on Polish contemporary literature both at home and in exile; this as complemented, after 1989, by a voice in the discussion on mutual coherence (or separateness) of the two literary currents, as well as remarks on issues and events of import to Polish society (incl. the year 1968 emigration wave, anti-Semitic events, outbreak of martial law). A thread of importance is the editor’s personal relationship with the poet over whose artistic development she watched, patronising her literary career. Hence, this indirectly provides an excellent source of knowledge on Anna Frajlich’s life and artistic output. In its footnotes, the publication comprises essential information on activities of several other Polish émigrés in the United Kingdom and the United States, and on the panorama of Polish emigration cultural-literary periodicals and institutions of Polish scientific and artistic life in exile

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