The couple who wrote literature in their love letters and did not stop laughing during the dictatorship

2023-11-18 18:59:13
The first thing Kornel Filipowicz sent to Wislawa Szymborska was an envelope with three photographs of monkeys from the Krakow Zoo and a short note: “Please accept this modest contribution to simiology from Kornel Filipowicz.” Additionally, he included a pen drawing of a daisy with the following caption: “A flower from a man.” It was April 1966. How could she not fall in love? Poland was then a sad and gray country, of censorship and ration cards, but it didn’t matter: they lived in laughter and sunshine, perhaps because they had suffered enough at that point and were back from everything, including love. . He was fifty-three, he had survived… See More
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