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Eugenia Żmijewska (1865–1923) wrote the short story Dwa spotkania [Two Meetings], from an idea which was provided to her by Eliza Orzeszkowa. The article presents the relations between the writers: 1) on the biographical level (correspondence, critical and literary articles and memoirs); 2) at the textual level (analysis of Two Meetings and Żmijewska’s novel Jutro [Tomorrow], whose protagonist is...
From Pierre Loti to Nicolas Bouvier, via Roland Barthes and many other Western travellers, the perception of Japanese women and their otherness since the 1860s has been constantly enriched by diverse and recurring mental images linked to a certain form of exoticism and Japonism. It seems essential to enrich the reflections on the concept of the otherness of feminine discourse in order to shed new...
The article is devoted to the analysis of the image of Maria Lazich in Afanasy Fet’s Ранние годы моей жизни [Early Years of My Life]. The author’s beloved appears as Elena Larina in this work, which belongs to the prose memoir genre. Biographical and fictionalising elements (literary references, use of known character models, and the dramatisation of the love theme) used to build this literary portrait...