“Inowłodz Years – The Happiest Years”. Julian Tuwim’s Relationship with Inowłodz in the Light of His Works and Correspondence with the Town’s Residents

Abstract

For Julian Tuwim, Inowlodz was an asylum – a place of learning about life, gaining experiences, delight in nature and contemplation of its beauty, an area of revealing explosion of energy, but also of calming emotions, stopping, calming, poetic reflection. In the town on the Pilica River, beloved by the young poet, his youthful works were created. He noted the place and time of creation of Inowlodz poems. The article shows Tuwim’s relationship with the town, where, as he himself put it, he spent his happiest years, in several aspects. The author discusses Inowlodz episodes in the poet’s biography, analyzes memories of Inowlodz and poetic inspiration by the realities of this town Tuwim’s works, as well as examines the poet’s correspondence using it as a source of knowledge about the relationship of the author of Polish Flowers with Inowlodz.