The Affairs of Czesław Miłosz in the Personal Notes of Maria Dąbrowska and Anna Kowalska

Abstract

One of the threads of the dailies and the correspondence of Maria Dąbrowska and Anna Kowalska published so far in excerpts is the so-called “Miłosz’s case”.
The poet became the cause of a conflict between these two writers of a purely personal
nature, which also influenced their evaluation of the poet’s work and life decisions.
They also referred to Czesław Miłosz’s decision in 1951, when he applied for asylum
in France, which was perceived by many in the literary and political circles both in
Poland and abroad as an act of treason. The article shows some of the less known
circumstances of the complicated “Milosz’s life affairs” from those years, seen from
the perspective of both writers and their immediate environment.