(A) Warsaw. The double issue (51–52) of Wiadomości Literackie presents a short story by Bruno Schulz entitled The Pensioner, with six illustrations by the author.
(B) Łódź. In Rewia Ilustrowana Tygodniowa, the supplement to Głos Poranny, there is a mention of Bruno Schulz in an article by Leon Louri, “Rok1935 w literaturze. Proza, poezja, dramat i czasopiśmiennictwo w Polsce”.
(A) The editorial office of the weekly planned the short story for the Christmas issue, which seems to prove Schulz’s high status as an author. The publication came out with six drawings depicting the crucial scenes of the story. There are many more of them than in the later Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass* (1937), where The Pensioner was reprinted. The version of the text in the book differs significantly from the magazine version (in 134 places). This time the editorial office led by Mieczysław Grydzewski* used its own standards of Polish, eliminating “foreign” words. According to Jerzy Ficowski*, the story was written in the 1920s. (sr) (transl. mw)
(B) In an attempt to synthetically describe the most important literary events of 1935, Leon Lourie also drew attention to the “new generation” of writers. Initially, they were most successful in works based on deformation and making reality unreal, but now we can notice a breakdown of this trend, the most prominent representatives of which are Michał Choromański and Bruno Schulz. Although in 1935 they did not publish any valuable work, according to the journalist of Głos Poranny, their creative possibilities were not exhausted yet. (pls) (transl. mw)
