Uczeń Fausta. Związki twórcze Zygmunta Trziszki i Leopolda Buczkowskiego
The Disciple of Faustus. Creative Links between Zygmunt Trziszka and Leopold Buczkowski

Summary/Abstract: An ideological characteristic of relations between Zygmunt Trziszka and the author from Konstancin, established during the mid-1970s, the last period in Buczkowski’s life and oeuvre. From the very beginning these contacts assumed the form of a disciple-and-master relation owing to the age difference, literary rank, and admiration for the talent of the older author; in time, however, they turned into closeness and mutual creative transactions. Zygmunt Trziszka not only borrowed from Buczkowski’s experiences, but also tried to propagate the works of his teacher by consistently creating a literary biographical legend and acting as the spiritus movens of the last works of the author of Czarny potok from the 1980s. Consequently, Buczkowski, at the time suffering from a writer’s block, published three more books – mainly an untypical record of registered conversations with him. In this case Trziszka not only performed the role a “midwife” of the reminiscences, but was a sui generis partner in a (philosophical) dialogue as the books’ editor-co-author. At the same time, he broached this concept by developing the idea of his master’s ”novel-document”, and in this manner becoming the sole, up to this day, continuator of Buczkowski’s creative conceptions, a process that the author of this article tried to briefly characterise and assess. This is also an opportunity for supplementing the oeuvre of Trziszka, today almost entirely forgotten and recognised mainly as a representative of the rural current in Polish literature.

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