May 1, 1936, Friday

Lviv. In the 17th issue of Sygnały, a short story by Bruno Schulz, Autumn, is published.

In the preserved letters from Schulz to the editorial office of Sygnały* there is no mention of the publication of Autumn. In a letter dated March 13 that year, Schulz, responding to the editorial office’s invitation, again expresses his readiness to cooperate after the break in the publication of the magazine1. This declaration must have been soon followed by the manuscript of Autumn. In another surviving letter, dated May 12, the writer sends a fragment of Kafka’s The Trial2 for print.

Schulz did not include Autumn in Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (1937). The story was first published in book form only in 1964 in the volume Prose, which was “an attempt to show the fullest possible literary output”3 of Schulz. (sr) (transl. mw) 

  • 1
    Sygnały, with the first issue on November 1, 1933, ceased publication due to financial difficulties in November 1934. It was renewed in February 1936. Cf. Sygnały 1933–1939, compiled by Jadwiga Czachowska, Wrocław 1952.
  • 2
    This text was never actually published.
  • 3
    Publisher’s note, [in:] Bruno Schulz, Proza, przedmowa Artur Sandauer, oprac. listów Jerzy Ficowski, Kraków 1964, p. 694. Autumn is published on pages 393–399.