Wojna, emigracja i dusza poety
War, Emigration and the Soul of the Poet

On Hermann Broch and Józef Wittlin’s Correspondence

Summary/Abstract: The article treats of two writers, Hermann Broch (1886–1951) and Józef Wittlin (1896–1976), who are linked by the generational experience of the World War I. Both of them struggled with the problem of representation of the war in their seminal works “Die Schlafwandler (Sleepwalkers)” and “Sól ziemi (Salt of the Earth)”. The similarities between the novels’ protagonists form the starting point to an attempt at comparing the authors’ biographies and their literary outputs. The sketch was produced as based on source text search query of so far unpublished German correspondence between Broch and Wittlin kept up between 1945–1951. The letters are preserved in two literary archives Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Yale, New Haven) and Houghton Library (Harvard, Cambridge).

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