Prywatysta Witkiewicz. O maturze Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza
Private Student Witkiewicz. On Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s High School Finals

Summary/Abstract: The article describes Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s high school finals taken in 1903. Prejudice of Stanislaw Witkiewicz, the father of the later painter, writer, dramatist and philosopher, against the institution of school influenced his decision of not letting his son to school. Young Witkiewicz, however, took his examinations as an extramural. The survived correspondence of father to his son reveals numerous commentaries and remarks about the finals and expressions of concern for the examinee. As based on the found report on school activity in which the examination took place, examination activities register and also pieces of information on the teachers working at this school, and first and foremost the father’s letters to the son, the author of the article attempts at reconstructing the preparations to the examination as well as its course. The text is completed with references to the high school finals in mature S. I. Witkiewicz-Witkacy’s literary and polemic creativity.

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