Niebieska koszula, żółty sweter i rewolwer zza komina. Z Wojciechem Kassem o spotkaniach z Czesławem Miłoszem rozmawia Kamil K. Pilichiewicz

Abstract

The text is an interview conducted by Dr Kamil K. Pilichiewicz, a scientist who specialises in the literature of the 20th century, with Wojciech Kass, the Director of the Gałczyński Museum in Pranie. As a young culture animator in Sopot, Kass was looking for the relationships between Czesław Miłosz and Sopot and Gdansk, where his mother and part of the family were thrown after the second world war. When the war ended, the poet’s parents Weronika nee Kunat and Aleksander Miłosz, his brother Andrzej and grandmother Józefa Kunatowa moved to the West and finally settled in the Drewnica village near Gdańsk. On the 22nd of November 1945 the mother, Weronika, died. Soon, the family in Drewnica was joined by the aunts: Gabriela Lipska nee Kunat, called Ela, with her husband Władysław Lipski, and Janina Niementowska nee Kunat. Later, in 1946, Czesław Miłosz persuaded his family to obtain an allocation of a former German villa at 23 Wybickiego Street in his name. The family tomb of the Miłosz-Kunat-Lipski families is located there, in the Catholic cemetery. This is the subject of the interview: the search for biographical traces of the stay of the Miłosz family in Pomerania, as well as the background of the arrangements of Miłosz’s stay in Sopot and Gdańsk in the years 1993, 1995, and 1996.