[print run of 200 copies!] SLOWACKI Juliusz - Raptularz 1843-1849.

Author: SŁOWACKI Juliusz

Title: Raptularz 1843-1849.

• Place of publication: Warsaw
• Year of publication: 1996
• Publisher: ToposPublishing House
• Number of pages: XXIII, [1], 340, [1].
• Illustrations, maps: manuscript photograph
• Size: 24.5 x 29 cm
• Binding: hard cloth with gilt on the spine, decorative lining
• Condition: very good-
• ISBN: 8390402416

Description:

Issue 1. edition of 200 numbered copies, auction number 36.

First complete edition with a likeness of the manuscript.

Editorial preparation, introduction, indexes by Marek Troszynski.

"Raptularz" by Juliusz Słowacki is a real rarity for lovers of literature of the Romantic era. This brulion, used by the poet for notes, literary and artistic sketches, daily notes, has not been published in full before. Its fragments were printed on the occasion of the publication of other divisions of the poet, used as a background for various works. The autograph of "Raptularz" stored in the Ossolineum library in Wroclaw was inaccessible to a wider circle of people interested in Słowacki's works. Thanks to Marek Troszynski, access to the notes from the last years of the poet's life will be much easier. Besides, reading the full transcript of "Raptularz", free from interference from the publishers, is a real challenge for lovers of Słowacki. The multiple elements that make up the "Raptularz" require a great deal of knowledge, sensitivity to words and literary imagination from the reader. In the "Raptularz" one can find sketches and ideas for well-known works from the poet's mystical period, drawings, excerpts from readings (often in the original), as well as daily notes. From the pages of this magnificent publication the reader can get to know not only the poet, but also the emigrant, friend, mystic and son. Słowacki appears as an extraordinary, but also quite ordinary man, a man of flesh and blood.

"Raptularz" was written at a turning point in the poet's life, documenting his departure from Towianski and the formation of his own individual path. Słowacki's Notebook is all the more valuable because none of Towianski's pugilares have survived. It is a testimony of not submitting to the Cause, leaving the Master's circle and working out his own path, written with the poet's life and works.

Also noteworthy is the manner in which the "Raptularz" was published. It reflects as faithfully as possible the autograph of the share. The book contains photographs of all the pages of the Raptularz including the unsaved and torn pages. In this way, you have preserved the notes with pages, as well as the pages with drawings. A faithful representation of the notebook does a much better job than the most detailed description. The autograph cards have been described in detail. Next to each page there is information about the notes made on the manuscript by the poet Januszewski's uncle, whether the text was written in pencil or pen, what of the notes was used in other works, what was crossed out. Of course, the text of the notes themselves is just as carefully compiled. In the print manuscript photograph next to it, all underlining, deletions and corrections are preserved. This gives a picture of the act of creative, individual writing.