[SZYMBORSKA Wisława]. Handwritten letter from Wislawa Szymborska to Danuta Herbert-Ulam in Paris, dated. August 20, 1962 in Cracow.
Double-sided manuscript on 4 pages form. 19.4x14.5 cm. The poet informs that a volume of her poems has appeared in print - with a six-month delay ("they suddenly changed the 'concept' of the cover"). She asks for leniency in judgment: "I am neither Shakespeare nor even Hermenegild Kociubinskaya." She was sick "of grassroots issues. They even suspected me of having an amoeba in my kidneys." The poet thanks the material sent from Paris for her dress ("how did you know I liked it with blue?") and stockings. "I am still missing the Arc de Triomphe, which, however, do not send me by mail (duty is large)," she says. In the final part of the letter, he touches on the addressee's planned translation of a collection of Jewish anecdotes. Also: "Monstrosities are happening at my place, a so-called general renovation is being carried out in the apartment, they are doing my bathroom, they've unclogged it for the time being and I've had no water at all for two weeks now." Minor stains.
W. Szymborska (1923-2012) - poet, essayist, critic, translator, columnist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996, founder of the Association of Polish Writers in 1989.
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