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Julia Hartwig - Coming back to martial law (48/100)

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Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2017 · Entertainment

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Julia Hartwig (1921-2017) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator and author of children's books. She studied at universities in Warsaw, Lublin and Kraków. Czesław Miłosz called her 'the grande dame of Polish poetry'. [Listener: Andrzej Wolski; date recorded: 2010]

TRANSCRIPT: Coming back once again to martial law, I have to say that... this martial law seemed to sort of stir... although the whole of society seemed to descend in a type of ombro – it was a kind of deceleration which really couldn't have been painless because absolutely everything... this is worth taking a closer look at... all associations were disbanded. The Literary Union was disbanded. The PEN Club can't be disbanded, they could suspend it, that's the only form... after that, normal activity was resumed. But a completely different image of this world, particularly of Warsaw... because more or less each week the wives of the interned who would go there with packages and all of that, and whether you wanted to or not, you participated in this and it wasn't all joyous, I don't need to tell you.

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