DL/A-Z//KOC - [Correspondence with Vera Kocib]

DL/A-Z//KOC

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[Correspondence with Vera Kocib]

1990, 1995

6 Letters (typescript)

Kocib, Vera
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013
Octagon Press
Schrager, George

6 items, some highlighted. Correspondence between Doris Lessing and Czech translator Vera Kocib, including correspondence with George Schrager of The Octagon Press Ltd.

DL/A-Z//KOC/001 [from George Schrager to Doris Lessing, 03/10/1990]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes with a copy of Vera Kocib's letter (item 002) relating to the Czech publication of Memoirs of a Survivor. Writes that "the picture Ms Kocib presents of publishing" in an East European country is particularly "striking".

DL/A-Z//KOC/002 [from Vera Kocib to George Schrager, 26/09/1990)

Letter, 2 leaves, typed.
Discusses her translation into Czech in relation to the "economical and ecological situation in Czechoslovakia" (now The Czech Republic), which she describes as a "disaster". Mentions the communist regime. Talks about the publishing industry in Czechoslovakia, and names a few publishing houses.

DL/A-Z//KOC/005 [from Vera Kocib to Doris Lessing, 22/07/1995]

Letter, 1 leaf recto and verso, typed.
Writes of the "communist oppression" of her country. Asks for Lessing's permission to translate some of her work into Czech. Mentions Memoirs of a Survivor and the Jane Somers Diaries.

DL/A-Z//KOC/006 [from Doris Lessing to Vera Kocib, 02/08/1995]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that she would be "delighted" for Kocib to translate her work. Discusses communism and how she ceased to be a communist formally in 1968. Describes her criticisms of communism as "public and loud". References Idries Shah.