Zakopane. Bruno Schulz meets with Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and Roman Ingarden.
Schulz visits Witkacy in a villa in Zakopane called Antołówka or Witkiewiczówka1. Apart from him, Professor Roman Ingarden2 also attends the meeting. The joint discussions are so engaging that Witkiewicz does not have time to write to Jadwiga Witkiewiczowa, whom he had promised a long letter the day before: “Tomorrow I will write a long letter. Today, forgive me, I am busy”3. In connection with “important talks” Witkacy cancels on his promise: “Dearest Nineczka I was supposed to write a long letter to you today (Whitehead, 1 screening), and here I am, with Ingarden and Schulz, and I cannot do it”4. It seems, then, that Witkiewicz could not have expected visits from both Schulz and Ingarden. Schulz postponed his trip to Zakopane and perhaps Witkiewicz did not know the final date of his arrival5. Ingarden, on the other hand, could have come unexpectedly, because on 18 July Witkiewicz wrote to him: “I am in despair that we cannot meet”6. Years later, Ingarden would admit that although they had met earlier7, it was only in Zakopane that friendly relations were established: “We met in 1935 in Zakopane, having previously exchanged a few letters. From then on, we met in Zakopane every year during the summer, until the outbreak of the war”8. The professor’s wife, Maria Adela Józefa Ingardenowa, and Schulz’s fiancée, Józefina Szelińska*, who probably also participated in the meeting, would mention later that during the meetings with Witkacy and Ingarden, Schulz was silent9.
See also: June 24, 1935, July 13, 1935, July 25, 1935, July 31, 1935, August 3, 1935, August 7, 1935, August 14, 1935. (ts) (transl. mw)