O (nie)obecności Zygmunta Krasińskiego w korespondencji Adama Mickiewicza

Abstract

Among 1246 letters written by Adam Mickiewicz to different persons only four are addressed to Krasiński (one of them consists of three sentences only). Krasiński was even more reserved: among almost 3500 letters written by the poet to almost 160 people only one letter to Adam Mickiewicz is known today although we know that Krasiński wrote to him twice. The author of the article analyses these letters in the context of the sentence attributed to Demetrius of Phalerum: ‘While writing a letter, man creates a picture of his soul’. The author of the article do not share the optimistic belief expressed by Demetrius, he claims that a man writing a letter reveals only as much as he wants. The second context for an interpretation is a sentence formulated by Jerzy Pilch: ‘In the face of unwritten, what is written always seems pale’. This sentence leads to a conclusion that we might attach too much importance to reading comprehension as a key to understanding another person.