Story for a Friend
Halina Poâswiatowska
Authorhouse (2006)
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Poet
Children, Woman
Softcover 9781425963620


Despite this tragedy, her vigor for life never subsided. Since Polish doctors were unable to help her at the time, many people pulled together to earn the money for her to be able to visit the United States and undergo an operation there. There she made many friends with whom she stayed until she was granted a scholarship to attend Smith College. There she studied art and philosophy while she continued to write. While she was grateful for the life America granted her, she was also critical of the States and often wrote about them after her time there.

Poswiatowska did not survive her second operation in the United States and died there in 1967. She was thirty-two years old.

Because her life was constantly under threat by her illness, she regarded death calmly, almost as an acquaintance, though she wanted to live as long as she could. While this certainly affected her poetry, it does not usually appear as a theme on its own.


Product Details
LoC Classification PG7175.O3 .O6613 2006
Nationality Polish
No. of Pages 233
Height x Width 8.3  inch
User Defined
Conflict WW2
Notes
Halina Poświatowska (born Helena Myga, May 9, 1935, Częstochowa, Poland – October 11, 1967, Warsaw, Poland) - Polish poet and writer, one of the most important figures in modern Polish literature.(1935 - 1967. an Autobiography in the form of letters to a blind writer. As a little girl, when the war front went through her home town, Czestochowa, Halina spent a few days in hiding in a cellar, together with her parents. When they were able to come out again, it turned out that she was ill. After emigrating to the US, she died at age 32


Halina Poswiatowska

Poswiatowska emerged in 1958 as a part of a transition in Polish poetry from social realism of a war and post-war world to a much stronger emphasis on the intangible things: courage to express irony, oneself, distance, emotion. An unusual phenomenon of the time, Poswiatowska was just what Poland needed.

When she was young, the war front went through her hometown of Czestochowa. She spent a few days hiding with her parents in a cellar, which caused an illness, which was followed by complications that included a serious heart condition. Because of the symptoms of this unknown disease, she was unable to go to school. With her mother’s help, she studied on her own.

Even though she spent time in hospitals and sanatoria, her condition did not improve. At one of the sanatoria, she met Adolf Poswiatowska, who would later become her husband. He was an aspiring film director and also had a heart condition. He, unfortunately, died shortly after they were married.