Czarny potok and the archive

Sławomir Buryła

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/fp.2020.21.26061

A b s t r a k t

The paper discusses the problem of the origins of Czarny potok, a novel by Leopold Buczkowski. By reconstructing the complicated story of the origins of the novel, the author consults the surviving genesis documents (both published and unpublished) housed in Buczkowski’s archive. Their analysis allows to address some issues regarding the origins of the novel, as well as the complex compositional and story-related aspects of the book.