Szyfr w Dzienniku bez samogłosek Aleksandra Wata
Code in Aleksander Wat’s Dziennik bez samogłosek [Diary without Vowels]

Summary/Abstract: Kmiecik presents Aleksander Wat’s hitherto unpublished Dziennik bez samogłosek [Diary without Vowels], which was written in code. The passages discussed in this article are based on the “original typescript” kept in the writer’s archive at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. They are reproduced in two versions: 1) the genetic one, which is closest to the archived material (this version skips the vowels and reproduces Wat’s syntax, punctuation, typographical errors, stylistic and lexical slips); and 2) a decrypted version (the vowels have been added and typographical errors have been corrected while preserving the original syntax and punctuation). This commentary attempts to read Wat’s code in the spirit of Adam Dziadek’s somatic criticism – as a model of “speed-writing” conditioned by Wat’s painful illness and marked by his somatic experience.

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