The article aims to analyse assorted texts by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz in the context of postcolonial theory. The author analyses the language used by Witkacy to talk about Oriental Others in the letters written during his trip and immediately following its conclusion and in reportage. It also shows how the author, on the one hand, challenges the usurpations of Orientalistic discourse and, on the other, willingly repeats colonial gestures, yet engages in the latter only when these gestures have no real consequences.
Diaries of Maria Dąbrowska have been written during all author’s adult life, since the year 1914 till 1965. They are one of the greatest Polish examples of literary genre which was born in France and called journal intime. The aim of this article to propose a new way of reading it: as expression of art of living, as an aesthetisation of every day life, using categories created by Richard Shusterman in his book Practising philosophy. Pragmatism and philosophical life, which was inspired by John Dewey’s Art as experience.