Snippets. The thing about the abandoned text of a novel entitled Judge Deluty. Scenes from the First Years of Stanisław August Reign by Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (an issue of unknown manuscript)

Abstract

Adam Jerzy Czartoryski’s novel entitled [Mister] Judge Deluty [Pan sędzia Deluty] was first ever published in 2005 on the base of the text’s handwriting copy made by Leonard Niedźwiecki, Czartoryski’s secretary. However, the autograph is much richer. The content of its first nine cards – Czartoryski named them ‘snippets’ – are in connection with the novel despite the fact that they appear to be only a ‘secondary text’. This fragment waited to be issued until now. What is more, it has not been mentioned in any research work so far. The purpose of the article is to issue a piece of this unknown prose which seem not to be without importance for thorough analysis, interpretation and comprehension of the whole book by Czartoryski.