Listy Jerzego Giedroycia i Józefa Łobodowskiego
The letters of Jerzy Giedroyc and Józef Łobodowski

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to present the importance of the work of Józef Łobodowski for the imple-mentation of the Eastern program of the Paris-based„Kultura from an epistolographical perspective.Łobodowski and Giedroyc exchanged 839 letters between 1947 and 1988. They covered various issues, fromliterary translations, reviews of Ukrainian and Belarusian literature, to cultural journalism. Łobodowski andGiedroyc had similar cultural experiences, and as such they both were acutely aware that achieving a mutualunderstanding and forging a political partnership between Poland and Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus hadto rooted in knowledge of each other’s history and national aspirations. In 1951 Kultura, considered the most important center of political thought in exile after 1945, published an article by Łobodowski entitled“ Against the ghosts of the past”. This article initiated a discussion on the permanence of borders in EasternEurope after World War II and the need to overcome stereotypes. Based on the reception of this article andthe project of the anthology of Belarusian literature, it can be concluded that Łobodowski participated inpromoting the assumptions of Kultura among émigrés from the so-called ULB area. His work was importantfor the realization of the cultural aspect of the Eastern idea.

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