21 February 1938, Monday

Warsaw. Tadeusz and Zofia Breza write a letter to Bruno Schulz.

Like the rest of the Brezas’ correspondence to Schulz, this letter has gone missing. However, the date of posting and the approximate content can be reconstructed on the basis of Schulz’s reply.

The letter was probably written in a very warm tone, and it mainly revolved around the remarks Tadeusz Breza*, a prose writer, essayist and editor of Kurier Poranny*, had made before about Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass*, a collection of Schulz’s stories that appeared a few months earlier (Schulz will reply the following: “Dear Tadzio, thank you for your words, both positive and negative. You are, it seems, right in one and in the other”1).

In addition to friendly greetings, the text also included a request from “Mrs. Maria Leśnobrodzka”2 an enthusiast of Schulz’s work who, perhaps under the influence of a recent reading of the Sanatorium, asked for his autograph.

See also: 24 February 1938*. (jo)

  • 1
    Bruno Schulz’s Letter to Tadeusz and Zofia Breza of 21 February 1938, [in:] Bruno Schulz, Dzieła zebrane, volume 5: Księga listów, collected and edited by Jerzy Ficowski, supplemented by Stanisław Danecki, Gdańsk 2016, p. 60.
  • 2
    Unfortunately, the details on both Maria Leśnobrodzka herself and on her relationship with the Brezas and Schulz have not been established so far.