O jednej dacie, której w archiwum zabrakło

Abstract

The article focuses on a particular episode in Teodor Parnicki’s biography in an attempt to establish the date of the writer’s Catholic baptism. Despite a large number of various texts on the topic (in the form of interviews, private letters, fragments of novels), this date remains unknown. The writer was obsessed with ascertaining dates, but he did not reveal this one. The article therefore becomes a description of Parnicki’s autobiographical and literary strategy. Like the protagonists of his novel, Parnicki used the strategy of “subtracting from the truth”, which itself is very interesting.