Zygmunt Krasiński’s letters to Henry Reeve – editorial problems

Abstract

Zygmunt Krasiński’s letters to Henry Reeve require research tools and editorial solutions other than these currently existing. Putting short narrative pieces attached to letters as something additional to the discussed epistolography – considered as a separate genre – under the text of a letter, or in a separate volume of “collected writings”, but not within a letter, deprives Krasiński’s writing of the specific philosophy of “being” and creating, the concept of poetry, text, word and correspondence. A technique of the editorial preparation of letters – innovative but respecting the achievements of traditional philology – which is presented in the article enables to recreate the intentional multi-discursiveness of Krasiński’s work, its semantic diversity and polyphony of meanings.