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Letter from Władysław Tatarkiewicz written 24.08.1933

Author Władysław Tatarkiewicz
Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers
Archive Ingarden Family archives
Date of creation 24.08.1933
Reference code in archive ARI
Copyrights all rights reserved
Resource type letter
Subject matter publication issues
Field aesthetics, philosophy
Tags #academic publications, #aesthetics, #Das literarische Kunstwerk, #dissertation about musical work, #dissertation summary, #editorial problems, #length of publication, #music, #musical work, #On Literary Works, #philosophical journals, #Philosophical Review, #report, #Władysław Tatarkiewicz

EDITORIAL BOARD OF PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW       n          n                         24/8/1933
WARSAW
BODUENA 6 – TEL. 46-42

   n     Honoured Doctor,
n        Thank you kindly for the card and for informing me about the status of the article on the musical work.
That the article is not finished didn’t frighten me; I myself had decided to postpone the deadline for assembling the issue to the beginning of October. However, I can’t conceal that I was stunned and worried by the news that the art. is supposed to run to 5 arkuszy [1 arkusz = 40,000 characters]. Of course, in absolute terms, this is not a large number, but when 1 arkusz was expected, and when the entire issue runs to 5 ark., it reduces all editorial intentions to nothing.
   n        I can give you, at most, two segments, each of which can be at most one and a half arkuszy. Thus it would amount to 3 ark. Perhaps, though, you’ll be able to shorten the thing within these maximum limits – to give a kind of summary of your dissertation. Please don’t consider this bargain barbaric, since it’s only a matter of reckoning with the publication’s capacity. In any case, I myself am trying to adapt to our situation and am printing not papers themselves, but extracts – perhaps this gives me a certain right to ask this of my collaborators. I’d be grateful to you if you wouldn’t mind letting me know that you agree to my proposal and that I can count on the first segment at the beginning of October.
   n        I already have in my portfolio an extensive report on Liter. Kunstwerk [Das literarische Kunstwerk, The Literary Work of Art, by Ingarden] which will go in the fourth issue.

   n        I enclose expressions of respect and a handshake

   n      Wtatarkiewicz