August 14, 1935, Wednesday

Zakopane. Bruno Schulz meets with Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz.

Despite his bad mental state caused by Czesława Oknińska-Korzeniowska’s “antics”, Witkacy welcomes his friends in Witkiewiczówka: “And here is Schulz, Ingarden, Whitehead1, some buffoon for PLN 50, some ladies who want everything very cheap and at all lack of faith in everything”2. Józefina Szelińska and Maria Ingardenowa probably also participate in the meeting. 

Probably that day, “at the table or on the porch of Witkiewiczówka, there are also fierce debates about literature and philosophy. Of course, Witkacy and his friend Roman Ingarden shine. But Bruno keeps up with them, to the despair of a mainly female “court”, eager to start playing, not to discuss universals”3. 

See also: June 24, 1935, July 13, 1935, July 24, 1935, July 25, 1935, July 31, 1935, and August 7, 1935. (ts) (transl. mw)

  • 1
    Witkacy reads the works of Alfred Whitehead and prepares to write a polemic with Joachim Metallmann, who criticized Whitehead’s theories.
  • 2
    See Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Listy do żony (1932–1935), prepared for printing by Anna Micińska, edited and annotated by Janusz Degler, Warszawa 2010, p. 318.
  • 3
    Zakopane’s “essential conversations” that day with Witkiewicz might have looked like the literary presented by Agata Tuszyńska (Narzeczona Schulza. Apokryf, Kraków 2015, pp. 64).