„We mnie trzeba być”. Listy Teodora Parnickiego ze zbiorów Biblioteki Raczyńskich w Poznaniu
“Being Inside Me.” Teodor Parnicki’s Letters from the Raczyński Library in Poznań

Summary/Abstract: Teodor Parnicki’s letters from the collections of the Raczyński Library in Poznań document the writer’s connections with Great Poland. The first letters date back to the end of the thirties when Parnicki strived to organize in Poznań his lectures on Russian literature and the historical novel. The remaining ones written in the writer’s last years address to Wydawnicto Poznańskie which initially made a decision to publish Parnicki’s juvenile piece, i.e. a novel “Count Julian and King Roderick (Hrabia Julian i król Roderyk),” and followed with a contract for writing three novels, two of which (“Dary z Kordoby <Gifts from Cordova>” and “Kordoba z darów <Cordova from the Gifts>”) after 10 years of his literary experiments make up the writer’s return to writing purely historical novel. The letters shed light on some interesting spects of Parnicki’s craft and show his struggle in his last years against the difficult historical matter, worsening the health condition, and increasing loneliness.

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