(A) Warsaw. The 40th issue of Tygodnik Ilustrowany features a short story Edzio by Bruno Schulz, with five illustrations by the author.
(B) Drohobych. Bruno Schulz writes a letter to Kazimierz Truchanowski.
(A) The story was probably written in the second half of the 1920s. To send them to Tygodnik Ilustrowany*, Schulz again turned to his “old manuscripts”. He especially wanted to illustrate this publication. This work was delayed, since in an undated letter to the editor Wacław Czarski* (probably from the beginning of 1935) he said: “Please give me two more weeks to illustrate Edzio”. However, several months passed before the story appeared in Tygodnik Ilustrowany. The illustration had the following titles: Edzio, Twilight, Mr. Jakub, Nocturnal mess, Adela. The composition of the story was sloppy. One line (“overworked, he would like to sleep and forget”) from page 790 was broken to the next page, which distorted the meaning. The text contains obvious errors, differs significantly from the later book edition (about 50 variations). In the version of Edzio that was published in Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass* (1937), there are also different versions of the illustrations. (sr) (transl. mw)
(B) In it, he thanks for the words of sympathy for his stories, promises to send two copies from The Booke of Idolatry series and mentions that due to lack of time he cannot illustrate Truchanowski’s works, but he would gladly read them.
See also: 4 March 1936*, 11 April 1936*. (bt) (transl. mw)
