[Czeslaw Milosz]. Extensive letter from Czeslaw Milosz to Zdzislaw Najder concerning mainly his work on a history textbook....

[CzeslawMilosz ]. Extensive letter from Czeslaw Milosz to Zdzislaw Najder concerning mainly work on a textbook on the history of Polish literature, dated. 24 May 1967 in Cabris, France.
Letter on 7 pages form. A5. Milosz begins with a description of Cabris: "The place is delightful, home to French writers and professors, but hardly anyone at this hour, olives, silence, with a view of the landscape below, and as the mistral blows, the visibility enormous, this morning [...] I saw Corsica. I wrote to Zbyszek, urging him to come here [...] for convalescence." We are referring to Herbert, who, while in France at the time, suffered a nervous breakdown. He took advantage of Milosz's invitation. He mentions his wife Janina's serious illness, his difficult cooperation with the Slavic Center and his professional work ("You know very well that my going into the professorship was the result of coincidence and that it is not my proper vocation, although I try to fulfill my duties scrupulously"). He writes about, lying outside his main interests, his work on a textbook on literary history ("a servile thing, but a little better than Kridl, who is noble but boring"): "I am not Gombrowicz and, on the contrary to him, I find my 'distractions' advisable for health." He asks Najder for an honest assessment of the textbook he is preparing for publication. Very good condition.
C. Milosz (1911-2004) - poet, prose writer, essayist, literary historian, translator, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1980. From 1951 to 1993 he was in exile in France and the USA. After his departure, he was banned from printing in the People's Republic of Poland until 1980.