Juliusz Słowacki's Eastern Dirtscript. Volume 1 Autograph likeness
The autograph likeness is a facsimile edition of the Raptuler. With this edition, the reader interacts with the texts and drawings of the great poet.
Juliusz Słowacki's Eastern Dirtscript, found a few years ago in Moscow by Dr H. Głębocki (the manuscript was in the collection of the Krasiński Library in Warsaw before 1939, inv. no. 5217), is a historical and cultural source of inestimable value: it contains manuscripts and drawings by the poet connected with his journey to the East.
In its entirety, it has not yet been published or compiled, while most of the drawings it contains are known only from references by previous editors. As of 1945, it was thought to have been burnt down during the Second World War. The discovery of the autograph is an event of great importance for Poland's national heritage and has great - strictly scientific - significance for research into the poet's work. Today's historical and literary as well as editorial and textological knowledge makes it possible to study the manuscripts and drawings contained in the album in a fully scientific manner.
The aim of the edition is to study the document scientifically and to use it in an interdisciplinary way as a historical-literary, historical and editorial-textological as well as a biographical source. Finding and editing the manuscript also created the possibility of a new description of Słowacki's travels to Greece and the Middle East in political, artistic, existential and moral contexts, as well as verifying the readings of the texts whose autographs are found in the raptuliar.
The result of the work of the team under the direction of Professor Maria Kalinowska is a three-volume edition, a textological study of the found manuscript (together with a full critical apparatus, factual comments and an interpretative study, including a reconstruction of the history of the notebook).
