„Na tratwie rozbitków”. Korespondencja Józefa Wittlina z Bolesławem i Haliną Micińskimi
“Na tratwie rozbitków [On the Raft of Castaways]”. Correspondence of Józef Wittlin with Bolesław and Halina Micińscy

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the contacts of Halina and Jerzy Wittlin with Bolesław Miciński, and later also with the latter’s wife Halina Micińska. The young Miciński greatly valued Wittlin as a translator of “Odyssey” and as a writer. In Wittlin’s view, Miciński was also a talented man of letters. The two poets met in Warsaw in the 1930s and continued their friendly relationship during the World War II (they stayed for some time in Lourdes) until Miciński’s passing. The sources presented in the article, especially 12 to this day unknown letters, shed new light on the lives of the writers, on some facts from postwar history of Halina Wittlin, Jerzy Wittlin, and Halina Micińska, and well as of a few other figures that remained close to Wittlin and Miciński. In the correspondence in question a special place is occupied by a rewritten letter by Halina Micińska’s anonymous niece that contains an utterly authentic and dramatic description of events from the Warsaw Uprising.

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