spring 2023

“In our region…”, or Haupt’s “Letychiv district”

Tadeusz Sucharski

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In the article, I reflect on the spaces of inspiration, the “praił” [primordial clay] of Zygmunt Haupt’s works. I examine a unique “pronominal” spatial orientation found in his texts, his use of the prepositional phrase “u nas” [in our region], and the juxtapositions of “tam” [there] and “tu” [here], trying to establish what spaces are “hidden” behind these pronouns. (...)

Zygmunt Haupt in Lviv: An excerpt from the intellectual and artistic macro- and micro-history

Jagoda Wierzejska

ORCID: 0000-0002-2794-5608

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The article is a critical reconstruction of the early period of Zygmunt Haupt’s artistic life against the background of the intellectual and artistic life of Lviv in the 1930s. Lviv’s political, social, and cultural situation in the 1930s was very complicated. (...)

A ring in the archive. Genetics and fluidity of Zygmunt Haupt’s short stories (the author’s legacy in Stanford Libraries)

Jerzy Borowczyk

ORCID: 0000-0002-6420-4163

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The article is an attempt to analyse the process of textual creation in Zygmunt Haupt’s short story Entropia. To that end, brouillons in the archives of Stanford University special collections, containing consecutive versions of the work have been consulted. (...)

Zygmunt Haupt’s radio shows in the Voice of America: American literature, art, science and social life

Barbara Krupa

ORCID: 0000-0002-7085-9211

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The article focuses on Zygmunt Haupt’s shows for the Voice of America in the period 1951-1958. Broadcast transcripts are part of the writer’s archive, which is hosted by the Special Collections of C.H. (...)

„[…] We have lost our hearts to you”. Some initial remarks on the correspondence between Zygmunt Haupt and Maria and Józef Czapski

Paweł Panas

ORCID: 0000-0002-7611-1992

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The paper discusses the results of a primary analysis of the correspondence between Zygmunt Haupt and Maria and Józef Czapski. The letters are dated 1950-1975, offering an interesting picture of a friendship spanning over decades. (...)

“Manuscripts don’t burn:” The reconstruction of the text of Zygmunt Haupt’s short story Zołota hramota

Aleksander Madyda

ORCID: 0000-0001-6836-9152

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The article is devoted to the reconstruction of the missing fragments of Zygmunt Haupt’s short story Zołota hramota. Expert knowledge of Haupt’s entire oeuvre and style, characterized by recurring motifs and corresponding expressions, was the basis for the reconstruction. (...)

Conradian inspirations in Zygmunt Haupt’s prose

Wiesław Ratajczak

ORCID: 0000-0003-3443-4600

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Although Conrad-inspired motifs are not frequent in Zygmunt Haupt’s prose, they do play and important role. Thanks to discovering similarities and differences they serve the author of Pierścień z papieru to describe his own writing method. (...)

“White bellies of fish:” Zygmunt Haupt and modernity’s fascination with mountaineering

Przemysław Kaliszuk

ORCID: 0000-0001-8668-3911

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This article discusses the motifs of mountains and mountaineering in Zygmunt Haupt’s selected texts. The author analyzes how mountain spaces and experiences related to mountains are described, and also reflects on the scale of mountaineering fascinations. (...)

Zygmunt Haupt’s literary engineering

Michał Zając

ORCID: 0000-0001-9096-8258

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With the tools borrowed from the psychoanalytical theory of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, this article discusses the topic of the represented world, and especially literary characters, in the prose of Zygmunt Haupt. (...)

Haupt’s America. Attempts at an entropic novel. Luizjana, W barze Harry’ego, Zamierzchłe echa, Oak Alley nad Missisipi, Cyklon

Rafał Szczerbakiewicz

ORCID: 0000-0002-3506-1669

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In works by Zygmunt Haupt, the motif of entropy was a unique moment associating the speculative character of modern scientism with modernist prose. The scientific explanation – physics – is used to interpret the world’s natural and social history. (...)