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Letter from Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz written 27.08.1934

Author Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers
Archive Ingarden Family archives
Date of creation 27.08.1934
Related places Lviv, Warsaw, Zakopane
Reference code in archive ARI
Copyrights all rights reserved
Resource type letter
Subject matter academic issues, personal issues, portrait issue, publication issues, travel
Field aesthetics, art., logistics, painting, philosophy
Tags #aesthetics, #Alfred Tarski, #Antałówka, #Das literarische Kunstwerk, #discussion, #Jan Łukasiewicz, #logistics, #Lviv, #monadology, #On the identity of the work of music, #philosophy, #popular monadology, #portrait, #portrait of Ingarden, #Roman Ingarden, #Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, #Stanisław Leśniewski, #summer, #Tadeusz Kotarbiński, #travel, #Warsaw, #Witkacy, #Witkiewicz Family house, #Zakopane

27.VIII 1934
Most Honoured and Dear Professor!
I still encounter various obstacles which keep me from reading “Lit. Kunstwerk”. In the past, I would have thrown myself at it like a tiger. When I was still dealing with aesthetics. Now, I am interested in the subject rather for the sake of philosophy contained in it, about which I have a lot of reservations and which fascinates me nevertheless. I read “Identity of the Work of Music” and a week ago I returned to the former work. But as I read, especially when finding something contrary to my convictions, I write a lot on the margins, and when it is not enough, on separate pages. That is why it takes so long. On top of this I had travels, portraits, I needed to finish my “popular monadology”, for which I had to read a lot of necessary things. Now I have more time. I wrote a small thing about logistics, which I read in front of the Warsaw moguls (Łukasiewicz, Leśniewski, Tarski, Kotarbiński and others). There was a v[ery] interesting discussion between the moguls and myself and their explanations for me. I am sending it to you, Professor, maybe you can pos.[sibly] suggest where to print it, if you find it good enough. Please do not force yourself to answer.
I enclose words of true respect, affection, and gratitude
n            n                n                n                n                   S. I. Witkiewicz

Antałówka, The Witkiewicz Family House, Zakopane 3.
Since you did not visit me during the summer, we must postpone making the portrait until my stay in Lviv. I am v.[ery] sorry.