„Kontakt intelektualny z Państwem obojgiem na odległość daje mi [...] wiele radości”. Listy Teodora Parnickiego do Teresy i Sławomira Cieślikowskich z lat 1961-1966

Abstract

In the broad collection of Teodor Parnicki’s letters to Teresa and Sławomir Cieślikowscy from the 1960s we observe the intellectualists’ gradually forming transcontinental friendship. The prose writer, while staying on emigration in Mexico, was detached from readers but eager to contact them, whereas Teresa Cieślikowska, connected with the University of Łódź, worked at that time on her doctoral dissertation (ultimately a book) on Parnicki’s creativity. Sławomir Cieślikowski, a distinguished Orientalist (Indian scholar), was also a careful reader of Parnicki’s novels, and traces of this reading can also be found in the letters in question. Since the period for the correspondents was a time of intense activity, their letters are pithy: they refer mainly to issues connected to literature and history. Owing to that, they become an important source text.