Nieznany rękopis „Śmierci” z 1888 roku
An Unknown Manuscript of “Śmierć” (“Death”) from 1888

A Contribution to the Biography of Ignacy Dąbrowski Ad Fontes

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the surviving manuscripts of a novel entitled “Śmierć” (“Death”) by the Young Poland writer Ignacy Dąbrowski. Only three of the four manuscripts were previously known by researchers, while the fourth was found as a result of a search at the National Library in Warsaw. It was previously undeveloped and unmentioned in any scholarly source. Both the elements comprising the manuscript itself and the archival research related to it make an interesting contribution to the reconstruction of the biography of Dąbrowski, a gifted writer, widely read writer at the turn of the 19th-20th century, but unjustly overlooked today. The manuscript also reveals the process of formation of the artist's literary temperament and denies earlier opinions that he modeled his novel on Henryk Sienkiewicz’s “Bez dogmatu” (“Without Dogma”).

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