Skole. Debora Vogel writes a letter to Bruno Schulz, where she considers spending two weeks together in Paris. She also responds to the topics raised in his unpreserved letter.
Vogel writes a letter from the summer resort of Skole, where she rented an apartment for herself and her family for two months. She is, as she puts it, “strangely depressed and upset”. She writes: “I don’t even know if I will be able to work according to the original assumptions. And what is worse, I don’t know if I will be able to have money for some other, private and necessary trip”. She means her arrival in Paris, which she must have talked to Schulz about before. Now, not sure if Schulz would implement the plan, she sees it this way: “We need people. Urbanism is not a cliché. We should recreate ourselves in foreign cities. If you are going to Paris, I am returning to the practical side of the matter – I will manage to collect some money – and I will come for the last two weeks of August”. However, her intention would not be realised. Meanwhile, referring to her own experiences (she was on a trip to Paris the year before), she advises Schulz on how to arrange the formalities related to obtaining a passport.
The second part was devoted to the topics raised by Schulz in his unpreserved letter to Vogel. According to Vogel’s replies, the writer raised the issues of “extending himself and his unfulfilled possibilities in his offspring”, he referred to D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and to La belle saison, the third part of Roger Martin du Garda’s The Thibault series.
See also: September 1, 1938, November 21, 1938, December 7, 1938, January 9, 1939. (sr) (transl. mw)
