„Raptus Europae. Dziennik” Józefa Wittlina
Józef Wittlin’s “Raptus Europae. Dziennik” (“Raptus Europae. A Diary”)

Summary/Abstract: The article refers to Józef Wittlin’s diary–unpublished and unknown to readers. The text, composed of notes taken from the 1920s to the year 1976 (the year of the author’s death), is of paraliterary and syncretic character, and bears the title “Raptus Europae. Dziennik” (“Raptus Europae. A Diary”). Wittlin’s daughter, Elżbieta Wittlin Lipton, the poet’s only heiress, made it available for inspection and publication only to a few literary historians. Among the diary’s notes we find, inter alia, a handwritten fragment of “Sól ziemi” (“The Salt of the Earth”), notes to second part and a project of third part of “Powieść o cierpliwym piechurze” (“Story of a Patient Infantryman”), detailed plans of intended novels, rough drafts of the drama “Barabasz” (“Barabbas”), notes from travels to Europe and sketches of unfinished poems. The present paper focuses on Wittlin diary’s autobiographical character.

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