Nerwowy wiek dojrzewania. Listy Teodora Parnickiego do Konstantego Symonolewicza
Nervous Maturation Teodor Parnicki’s Letters to Konstanty Symonolewicz

Summary/Abstract: The review undertakes Listy do Konstantego Symonolewicza z lat 1928–1949 (Letters to Konstanty Symonolewicz from the Years 1928–1949) (2021) and briefly describes the state of research in Teodor Parnicki’s work as well as selected threads of the comprehensive (over 160 items) collection. The threads predominantly refer to the writer’s biography, the relation with mentor and teacher Konstanty Symonolewicz, alongside of the intellectual ambience of prewar Lvov and literary life politicality. The reviewer stresses how brilliantly Parnicki and Symonolewicz’s correspondence was prepared. Tomasz Markiewka in his comprehensive commentaries patiently explicates the complex and wide linguistic, literary, biographical, historical, and cultural contexts. The volume is viewed as a seminal and principally the ultimate item in the non-literary cycle of Parnicki’s publication. It is a valuable source of knowledge on the writer and on the influence of biography on literature (key issue for the author of Słowo i ciałoThe Word and the Flesh) as well as on the cultural life of prewar Lvov.

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