Heidegger repaid Towarnicki with an inscribed Antigone translation recalling the manuscript rescue

Evidence

By now it was morning, and Heidegger settled himself in to stay at the house of his friends there. The long-suffering Towarnicki hitched back to Freiburg to arrange for a new car. He arrived to find Elfride glaring at him: what had he done with her husband? Still, the consensus was that he had done well by his friend: Heidegger later recalled the favour with gratitude, and gave Towarnicki an inscribed copy of his translation of the chorus from Sophocles’ Antigone, with its passage on the strangeness of man. He wrote on it, ‘In memory of our expedition to Constance.’ — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 576

Categorization

• BMF: The nocturnal clandestine road trip to retrieve hidden manuscripts through storm, broken headlights, and a checkpoint — with the philosopher delighting in his survival — strongly evokes the questing-with-a-guide structure of certain journeys; the Antigone inscription gift lands closest to 2001’s bone-into-tool arc as a marker of humanity, though the specific resonance with a named novel is tenuous.
• XREF: connects to: Heidegger physically hid his manuscripts from the advancing Allies — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 561