Manuscripted volumes by Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński towards manuscript culture

Abstract

The article contains full characteristic of the manuscripted volumes written by Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński. The introduction contains an attempt to define the genre, the history of research approaches and the edition of volumes and compositions it includes, as well as the volumes’ position in the bibliographies of underground conspiracy documents. The above perspectives will be compared to the one of Baczyński and placed on the line between intimate writing and publication. In the article’s next part, a detailed description of the volumes is intertwined with further information on the presented compositions. The author traces the genre’s origins to the poem collections sent in Baczyński’s pre-war letters to Zuzanna Progulska (Chuweń, after her husband) and Wydawnictwo Sublokatorów Przyszłości (Future’s Subtenants’ Publishing House), which operated in the beginning of World War 2. The final part contains graphic and biographical contexts of the volumes. The article postulates to treat manuscripted volumes as sources of valuable interpretative motifs of Baczyński’s poetry, and to consider the volumes as an example of manuscript literary culture present in the period of occupation.