Czesław Miłosz letters to Zygmunt Hertz, 1960-1979.

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Czesław Miłosz letters to Zygmunt Hertz, 1960-1979.

129 letters from Czesław Miłosz (and his wife Janina) to Zygmunt Hertz (and his wife Zofia) dated 1960 to 1979, when Miłosz was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. While the letters discuss Polish literature in Poland and abroad and publications in Kultura, they are also often personal in nature. The letters reflect the support Hertz provided to Miłosz during his first years in the United States.

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Miłosz, Czesław

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Czesław Miłosz, poet, essayist and Nobel Laureate, was born on June 30, 1911, in Šeteniai (Szetejnie), Lithuania, and died on August 14, 2004, in Kraków, Poland, at the age of 93. Miłosz began to publish poetry while studying law at Vilnius University. After the Second World War, Miłosz became a cultural attaché for the People's Republic of Poland in New York and Washington, D.C. He then accepted a post in France in 1950. Increasingly estranged from the Polish government, he defected in 1951,...

Miłosz, Janina.

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Giedroyc, Jerzy

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Hertz, Zofia

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Instytut Literacki (Paris, France)

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Hertz, Zygmunt, 1908-1979

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