Listy Oli Watowej do Czesława Miłosza
Ola Wat’s Letters to Czesław Miłosz

Summary/Abstract: It is a selection of letters related, inter alia, to the edition of Aleksander Wat’s “My Century,” in charge of which were the poet’s wife and Czesław Miłosz. The letters are treasured at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale University) in Czesław Miłosz archives collection (catalogue number: GEN MSS 661). They contain important pieces of information especially about the final stage of the edition of “My Century.” Apart from detailed information about the edition of “My Century” in the letters to Czesław Miłosz one also finds a touching text in which Watowa tells Miłosz about her last meeting with Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz during his stay in France. In Ola Wat’s letters we also come across pieces of information about American edition of “My Century,” for which publishing Czesław Miłosz and Jan Gross acted as agents. The letters are published with the permission of Andrzej Wat, the poet’s son, and the above selection of letters will be included into the edition of the second volume of “Letters about All That Really Matters” prepared by the “Literary Notebooks” Foundation (Fundacja “Zeszytów Literackich”).

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