Nałkowska i Komornicka, czyli kto zawinił

• Authors: Brygida Helbig-Miszewski

Title variants

EN

Nałkowska and Komornicka, or: Whose Fault It Was

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The author analyses the love-hate relationship between Zofia Nałkowska and her seven years’ senior, the legendary painter Maria Komornicka, who was for a time romantically ivolved with Zofia’s father - Wacław Nałkowski - and her friend - Cezary Jellenta. The relationship between the two writers has excited emotional reponses from researchers for many years. Two critics specializing in Komornicka have shown their interest most explicitly: Izabela Filipiak and Edward Boniecki. They accuse Nałkowska of not maginalizing Komornicka’s role in women’s literature of early 20th century, of unfeeling attitude for Komornicka’s tragic fate, even though Nałkowska was inspired by her in the early age, and of the failure to help Komornicka, when she was declared insane and disempowered after her symbolic transformation into a man. Researchers have so far seen Komornicka as a lost and harmed person, whereas Nałkowska was perceived as the morally questionable winner. However, Hanna Kirchner, who specializes in Nałkowska, has recently shown interesting sources of Nałkowska’s dislike for Komornicka, pointing out to a forgotten juvenile poem called Historia „For­poczt”. The author of the article, who also wrote a monograph about Maria Komornicka, analyses the arguments presented by critics of both writers, observing the relation between Nałkowska and Komornicka from a neutral ground, without sharing the dynamic of hasty accusations.

Keywords

PL

Nałkowska and Komornicka; rivarly between writers; feminist interpretation of author’s biography; relations between Young Poland women authors; functions of patriarchal mentors; Wacław Nałkowski; Cezary Jellenta.

EN

Nałkowska and Komornicka; rivarly between writers; feminist interpretation of author’s biography; relations between Young Poland women authors; functions of patriarchal mentors; Wacław Nałkowski; Cezary Jellenta.; Nałkowska and Komornicka; rivarly between writers; feminist interpretation of author’s biography; relations between Young Poland women authors; functions of patriarchal mentors; Wacław Nałkowski; Cezary Jellenta.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 21
• Pages: 163-175

Dates

published

2013-01-01

Contributors

author

Brygida Helbig-Miszewski

• Uniwersytet Humboldtów w Berlinie

References

• Boniecki E., Modernistyczny dramat ciała. Maria Komornicka, Warszawa 1998.
• Filipiak I., Obszary odmienności. Rzecz o Marii Komornickiej, Gdańsk 2006.
• Galant A., Trupy na brzegu, „Pogranicza” 2011, nr 6, s. 56–57.
• Helbig-Mischewski B., Strącona bogini. Rzecz o Marii Komornickiej, Kraków 2010.
• Helbig-Mischewski B., Ein Mantel aus Sternenstaub. Geschlechtstransgress und Wahnsinn bei Maria Komornicka, Norderstedt 2004.
• Jellenta C., Zapomniana awangarda, „Pion” 1935.
• Kirchner H., Nałkowska albo życie pisane, Warszawa 2012.
• Komornicka M., Utwory poetyckie prozą i wierszem, red. M. Podraza--Kwiatkowska, Kraków 1996.
• Kralkowska-Gątkowska K., Cień twarzy. Szkice o twórczości Marii Komornickiej, Katowice 2002.
• Zdanowicz K.E., Kto się boi Marii K.? Sztuka i wykluczenie, Katowice 2004.

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/pspsl:2013.21.9