Scope and Contents
The papers are of interest not only to researchers studying Wat's creative process and the context of his life, but also twentieth-century Polish literature, the relationship of authors to Soviet society, and the postwar Eastern European émigré literary community in France. Wat's repeated arrests and exile are documented in his notebooks, in personal papers, and in material related to his memoirs. His relationship to the émigré circle centered around the monthly Kultura in France is documented in correspondence with Jerzy Giedroy?, Gustaw Herling-Grudzi?ski, Konstanty Jele?ski, and Zygmunt Hertz. The posthumous success of his writings is documented in Paulina Wat's Correspondence in Series I, and in posthumously-dated material in the Writings series, which chiefly relates to the editing, translating, and publishing work of Paulina Wat and Czes?aw Mi?osz.
Dates
- 1915-1988
Creator
Language of Materials
Conditions Governing Access
Restricted Fragile Papers may be consulted only with permission of the appropriate curator. Preservation photocopies and access copies of sound recordings for reference use have been substituted in the main files.
Conditions Governing Use
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Arrangement
Extent
22.83 Linear Feet (48 boxes)
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
The papers are of interest not only to researchers studying Wat's creative process and the context of his life, but also twentieth-century Polish literature, the relationship of authors to Soviet society, and the postwar Eastern European e?migre? literary community in France. Wat's repeated arrests and exile are documented in his notebooks, in personal papers, and in material related to his memoirs. His relationship to the e?migre? circle centered around the monthly Kultura in France is documented in correspondence with Jerzy Giedroyc?, Gustaw Herling-Grudzin?ski, Konstanty Jelen?ski, and Zygmunt Hertz. The posthumous success of his writings is documented in Paulina Wat's Correspondence in Series I, and in posthumously-dated material in the Writings series, which chiefly relates to the editing, translating, and publishing work of Paulina Wat and Czes?aw Mi?osz.
Aleksander Wat, 1900-1967
Processing Information
Student assistant Ewelina Rudnicka assisted in the processing of this collection.
Boxes 15-17 and folders 401-417 are unused. Original audiotape reels are housed in boxes 47-49. Restricted fragile material.
- Audiovisual materials
- Authors
- Authors, Exiled -- Soviet Union
- Authors, Polish -- 20th Century -- Archives
- Emigration and immigration
- France -- Emigration and immigration
- Futurism (Literary movement) -- Poland
- Giedroyc, Jerzy, 1906-2000
- Herling-Grudziński, Gustaw, 1919-2000
- Hertz, Zygmunt, 1908-1979
- Jeleński, Konstanty A. (Konstanty Aleksander), 1922-1987
- Memoirs
- Miłosz, Czesław, 1911-2004
- Notebooks
- Photographs
- Poets
- Poets, Polish -- 20th Century
- Poland -- Emigration and immigration
- Poland -- History -- 1918-1945
- Poland -- History -- 1945-1980
- Poland -- Intellectual life -- 1918-1945
- Poland -- Intellectual life -- 1945-1980
- Polish literature -- 20th Century
- Polish poetry -- 20th Century
- Sound recordings
- Translators
- Wat, Aleksander, 1900-1967
- Watowa, Ola, 1903-1991
- Title
- Guide to the Aleksander Wat Papers
- Author
- by Lisa Conathan
- Date
- 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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