Drohobych. Bruno Schulz, disturbed by the lack of response from Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, writes another letter to him.
Two weeks after his previous letter, impatient and scared, Schulz writes to Witkiewicz1, informing him about the parcel2 and his anxieties: “I’m afraid I might have offended you with a certain tone of a fantastic buffoonery, which I fell into in my last letter, provoked by a similar colour of yours” 3. Schulz briefly analyses the basis of a potential conflict 4, comparing their literary styles, as he sees a mutual tendency for “aberration towards persiflage, buffoonery, self-mockery”5. Schulz sees Witkacy as his ally, with whom he can be artistically unrestrained – as he did in a letter from two weeks ago. Summing up, he convinces himself that his suspicions are wrong: “Where could I count on understanding, if not with you. No, I don’t think you were angry about it!”6.
Schulz also mentions the planned year’s leave from teaching7, which he would like to spend in Warsaw* and Zakopane*8. At the end, he informs Witkiewicz that he has stocked up on his books (“I am extremely happy about them”).
See also: 29 March 1934, 23 April 1938, 24–28 April 1938*. (ts) (transl. mw)