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This biographical essay presents the post-war history of the friendly relationship between Józefina Szelińska, Schulz’s fiancée, and Jerzy Ficowski, his first biographer and champion of his work. This reconstruction is based on an analysis of their correspondence. Seventynine letters and postcards from Józefina Szelińska to Jerzy Ficowski have survived, dating from 1948 to 1990; they are either handwritten,...
In the first part of the essay, Tuszyńska introduces Józefina Szelińska, “Juna,” and presents the circumstances of discovering an unknown manuscript of Bruno Schulz – an application for a sick leave that he wrote for his partner to the Main Statistical Office in Warsaw. The file with the document was kept for several decades in the Office archive to be preserved in the times of the Second World War...
The title Nameless One is Józefina Szelińska, Bruno Schulz’s fiancé who, however, never became his wife. The author reconstructs the history of their relationship, from their first meeting in 1933 through a period of friendship, marital plans, contradictory ideas about the future, and the ultimate breakup in 1937. The essay is also an attempt to account for the later life of Szelińska and draw a psychological...