Miasteczko wyobrażone. Schulz w liście Alicji Mondschein-Dryszkiewicz do Henryka Berezy
The Imaginary Townlet. Schulz in a Letter by Alicja Mondschein-Dryszkiewicz to Henryk Bereza

Summary/Abstract: For years Alicja Mondschein-Dryszkiewicz met important and highly regarded artists. In her correspondence with Henryk Bereza she recalled such luminaries of the world of culture and art as Witkacy, Gombrowicz, Schulz, or Hłasko. On 15 October, under the impact of reading Janusz Rudnicki’s Schulz ‘92, she wrote a letter addressed to Henryk Bereza in which she once again mentioned her familiarity with the author from Drohobycz. In doing she characterised the local milieu and the small town – Schulz’s birthplace, presenting her interpretation of the life and works of the author of Sklepy cynamonowe. These recollections supported by “narrative talent”, which according to Bereza’s assurances did not deprive the account of authenticity, sound credible. Dryszkiewicz attempted to tell Bereza an unusual and complicated biography of Schulz-the author; in her recollections she referred to Schulz’s experiences of provincial life and endeavoured to evoke the stifling atmosphere of the local ghetto. All traces recorded in this letter produce a portrait of Schulz inextricably connected with the small town – the site of his life and creative work, and the space of inspiration and longing.

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