Ideas, variants and (not) final versions. In Marian Pankowski’s writing workshop Cover Image

Pomysły, warianty i wersje (nie)ostateczne. W warsztacie pisarskim Mariana Pankowskiego
Ideas, variants and (not) final versions. In Marian Pankowski’s writing workshop

Author(s): Tomasz Chomiszczak
Subject(s): Cultural history, Short Story, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Marian Pankowski; home archive; short stories; plays; diary

Summary/Abstract: Marian Pankowski’s official literary output is already impressive, but only an examination of his large home archive shows how many literary plans or sketches were not implemented and, therefore, how extensive the writer’s artistic creation really was. His private collection includes, among others, large fragments of planned plays, interesting variants of short prose forms known from further official editions, as well as omitted chapters from the famous novel Here comes Matuga. Among other materials that are yet to be discovered, there are stories, sketches, reviews, reportss, but also epigrams, jokes, occasional poems, hundreds of letters, and finally a private-art diary written in the second half of the 1950s. This is still an unknown area, important for the history of Polish literature, which awaits further researchers.

  • Issue Year: 67/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 227-242
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish