A work of notebook romanticism. On the correspondence of Zygmunt Krasiński (in the light of several letters from Bad Wildungen)

Abstract

Most of the autographs of Zygmunt Krasiński’s letters did not survive. The article addresses the question of whether it is possible to read an epistolary work in the form of a rough draft, despite the lack of manuscripts and, more specifi cally, to what extent Krasiński’s way of working on letters can be recreated. Some of his letter written in Bad Wildungen exemplify the status of the letter in the context of the romantic culture of the manuscript and enable the interpretation of epistolary writing in what may be called a rough context.