24 November 1933, Friday

Drogobych. Bruno Schulz writes a letter to Stefan Szuman.

At the outset of the letter Schulz thanks Szuman* for sending him a book (see before 24 November 1933*). Then he talks about his meeting* with Zofia Nałkowska* in Warsaw*, during which they read a volume of Szuman’s poems together. Schulz is also trying to persuade Szuman to go to Zakopane*, where he could meet Nałkowska. “It would be interesting for me – your personal encounter and this intellectual drama that would come out of the clash of two such minds”1. Most likely, however, the meeting did not take place at the time2. At the end of the letter, Schulz confesses that he eagerly awaits the publication of The Cinnamon Shops, which is already in print. (mr) (transl. mw)

See also: before 4 January 1934 – 15 January 1934*. 

  • 1
    Letter by Bruno Schulz to Stefan Szuman of 24 November 1933, [in:] Bruno Schulz, Dzieła zebrane, tom 5: Księga listów, zebrał i przygotował do druku Jerzy Ficowski, uzupełnił Stanisław Danecki, Gdańsk 2016, p. 42.
  • 2
    Zofia Nałkowska met Stefan Szuman only in September 1945 in Cracow. However, Szuman made a disappointing impression on her: “Quite dull, old, small, he spoke of Schulz in a taciturn manner, his drawings he hardly knew, his illustrations he criticized” – Nałkowska described the professor in her Diaries (Dzienniki, tom VI: 1945–1954, część 1 (1945–1948), opracowanie, wstęp i komentarz Hanna Kirchner, Warszawa 2000, p. 79.