July 26, 1936, Sunday

(A) Warsaw. In the 32nd issue of Wiadomości Literackie, Bruno Schulz’s short story Father’s Last Escape is published. 

(B) Warsaw. In the 30th issue of Tygodnik Ilustrowany Bruno Schulz’s critical essay At Belvedere is published.

(C) Warsaw. In the 32nd issue of Prosto z Mostu, Jerzy Andrzejewski’s review “Powieść o dzieciach ulicy” mentions Bruno Schulz.

(A) The story was illustrated by the author. Schulz included it in Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass* (1937) as the closing part. There are more than 50 differences between the magazine version and the book publication of the story, this time also resulting from the editorial work of Wiadomości Literackie*. In the book version, Schulz added a drawing of two naked women riding a carriage. This theme does not appear in the story. (sr) (transl. mw)

(B) This is a review of Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski’s volume of journalistic and memoir drafts. Schulz compliments the drafts of the “word master” devoted to Józef Piłsudski, describing them as “a dictionary of contemporary national action, a list of creative historical forces”1. (mw) (transl. mw)

(C) When reviewing the novel Dzieci Jana Brzozy (1936)2 of a member of the literary group “Przedmieście”, Andrzejewski notes that young Polish novelists such as Michał Choromański, Witold Gombrowicz, Adolf Rudnicki, Adam Ważyk, Stefan Flukowski and Bruno Schulz, draw attention mainly with their “values, and sometimes only artistic curiosities”. According to the journalist of Prosto z Mostu, Brzoza’s book “distances itself from this general attitude” and “touches primarily with the content”3. (pls) (transl. mw)

  • 1
    Bruno Schulz, „Pod Belwederem”, Tygodnik Ilustrowany 1936, no. 330 (3998), p. 571; reprinted in: idem, Dzieła zebrane, volume 7: Szkice krytyczne, koncepcja edytorska Włodzimierz Bolecki, komentarze i przypisy Mirosław Wójcik, opracowanie językowe Piotr Sitkiewicz, Gdańsk 2017, pp. 63–65, footnotes pp. 211–211.
  • 2
    The novel describes the environment of Lviv paperboys.
  • 3
    Jerzy Andrzejewski, “Powieść o dzieciach ulicy”, Prosto z Mostu 1936, no. 32, p. 2 (available online: http://buwcd.buw.uw.edu.pl/e_zbior/ckcp/pzm/1936/numer32/index.htm). More on this subject: Piotr Sitkiewicz, “Bruno Schulz i krytycy. Recepcja twórczości Brunona Schulza w latach 1921–1939”, Gdańsk 2018.