| Sumario: | This reportage centers on the well-known poem Walc (Waltz), written by Czesław Miłosz in occupied Warsaw. After the war, the poem was analyzed by Krystyna Papierkowska, a terminally ill student of Polish philology at the Catholic University of Lublin. After her death, her friend sent this analysis to Miłosz. In response, the poet wrote that "all of this forms a certain whole," referring both to the fate of the characters in his poem and to the suffering marked upon Papierkowska's short life. Several years ago, the publisher Adam Cedro, who had read Papierkowska's work during his own studies, published the book Walc na troje (Waltz for Three), which includes the poem, her interpretation, correspondence between Miłosz and Paluchowska, and photographs from Miłosz's visit to Lublin in 1981, when he received an honorary doctorate from the university.
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