The writer’s archive, topography of his works and his didactic potential. About two short stores by Włodzimierz Odojewski with Greater Poland and Poznań in the background

Abstract

The author of the article focuses on the biography and prose of Włodzimierz Odojewski – one of the most important contemporary Polish writers. Since 2008, his literary archive has been collected at the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. The aim of the work is to indicate how archival collection can be used in the didactic work at various stages of education. The text is, as well, a kind of proposal for teachers how to familiarize students with Odojewski’s work. First part of the article shows the documents (manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence related to stages of writer’s life cycle) as a source of knowledge about the author’s life and history of his literary output, and also describes some of the archivist’s tasks. The second outlines the places in Greater Poland significant for the writer – Poznań and Kłecko, described in his short stories. These stories are examples of individual memory saved in literary texts.