(REYMONT) WODZIŃSKI Antoni. "Reymont about himself".

(REYMONT) WODZIŃSKI Antoni. "Reymont about himself".

Typescript of Władysław Reymont's autobiography. Dat. 15. IV. 03. brd de Montparnasse, Paris. "Dear Count I have already notified him with an open card of the receipt of letters and apologized for the delay in replying, today I apologize once again. I answer the questions in the order in which they were posed" (...) "I return to the confession: I was born in 1868, something like May 6, in the village of Kobiele Wielkie, Novoradom county, Piotrowska gubernia, where at that time my family leased a farmstead known as poduchowny. But already a year after my birth, my parents moved to the settlement of Tuszyn, two miles from Lodz. " (...) Typescript 8-mio pages, 7-mio pages written. Signed by Wł. St. Reymont (in print). A few corrections and underlining (probably by A. Wodziński) in pencil on the text. This letter served as a proofreading copy, intended for printing in "Kurjer Warszawski" No. 1 of January 1, 1926. On the first page, in pencil, an inscription: "Reymont's Autobiography", and on the last page "A. Wodziński. Reymont about himself. Autobiography of the creator of "Peasants". K(urjer) W(arszawski). 1926/I no. 1." This typescript is by Wladyslaw Reymont at the request of Antoni Wodzinski (Letter to A. Wodzinski dated 15. IV. 1903).
(...) Reymont did not leave any diaries or letters, allowing us to accurately reconstruct his biography. What we know about him, we owe only to loose notes, conversations and interviews, scattered in various Polish and foreign magazines, and above all, most of his longer, valuable autobiography, included in his letter to A. Wodzinski. Wodziński. (...). (K. Bukowski: "Wł. St. Reymont. Próba charakterystyki." Lviv 1927.) Size: 34 x 21 cm, trace of folding in half. On the last page no. Traces of yellowing. Paper and non. trace of stain. Good condition. Rare!