The study presents an unpublished letter by Maria Komornicka, which the poet sent in July 1899 to her aunt, Aleksandra Oszacka. The epistolary communication, which contains several pieces of information about the life and activities of the poet living in Warsaw, can be a valuable material for researchers interested in her biography.
The work concerns two short letters by Stanisław Wyspiański, which haven’t been published before. The letters, adressed to Maria Siedlecka and Eliza Pareńska, seem to be important in context of the artist’s biography.
The sketch concerns spiritualism and mediumship in the novel Faraon by Bolesław Prus. Object of analysis is especially Beroes, Chaldean magician and sage, who is one of the characters appearing in presented world. The main question in the aricle is, why Prus, positivist writer, decided to introduce to his novel such uncanny hero and such untypical problems.
This study is an edition of two unpublished letters by Władysław Reymont from January and May 1895. Both epistolary testimonies, related to the writer’sjourney to Italy, significantly expand our knowledge of the relatively early period in his literary biography.
The article discusses an unpublished short manuscript by Władysław Stanisław Reymont. A note placed by the author of The Peasants on a ball ticket from 1922 constitutes a starting point for the reconstruction of a minor, although particularly interesting, episode from the late period in the artist’s life.
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As the title suggests, the article focuses on Chinese traces and motifs in Teodor Parnicki’s prose. The considerations pertain to his historical novels Koniec “Zgody Narodów” and Słowo i ciało where the Chinese elements create extremely specific philosophical and cultural contexts. The analysis revolves around the contacts between ancient Chinese kingdoms and the Asian Hellenistic monarchies mentioned in both novels. As a result of the analysis, Parnicki is presented as a writer attempting to capture the psychological phenomenon of an individual meeting with the paradigm of a mysterious, highly distant civilisation.
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