Bernardyna Banaś
Rocznik Przemyski. Literatura i Język, 2 (27) 2023, 2023, s. 3 - 15
https://doi.org/10.4467/24497363RPLJ.23.001.18953Between affirmation and defiance of life – autobiographical elements in the works of Jadwiga Gamska-Łempicka
This paper is devoted to Jadwiga Gamska-Łempicka, a forgotten poet, translator and editor from the interwar period. It is an attempt to help her and her selected works emerge from oblivion. The main motif of this discussion concerns the autobiographical nature of her work. In compliance with the idea of Małgorzata Czermińska, the paper revolves around not a classical tale about the life of a poet but a manifest of identifying with the created character, a need to talk about oneself. Jadwiga Gamska- -Łempicka, making concrete artistic transformations, precisely expressed in her texts her personality and life experiences, which find a reflection in her biography. The article outlines the individual, separate nature of the poet’s work, her following her own poetic path, as well as themes and motifs typical of her entire output, which are: anxiety, fear, isolation, uncertainty, memories, loneliness, suffering, embitterment, time going by, death and a strong emphasis on the significance of religious experience