Słowa kluczowe: zoonarratology, animal narratology, animal studies, narrative, interaction, second-person narration, The Book on Friends, empathy, anthropocentrism, animal, subjectivity, psychology, cruelty, Henryk Sienkiewicz, mythology, ancient Greece, territory of ruins, Henryk Sienkiewicz – worldview, Henri-Frédéric Amiel – reception, intimate journal, modern conservatism, decadent novel, Utopia, Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, Francis Bacon, Johann V. Andreae, women’s image, women’s history, 16th century, 17th century, Fernando Pessoa, heteronymy, truth, literature, philosophy, Friedrich Nietzsche, Tadeusz Komendant, Michel Foucault, manuscript, autobiography, mirror, archives, discourse, source, authenticity, effacement, illusion, disability studies, animal studies, zoothanatology, Sunaura Taylor, Sigrid Nunez, archival practices, Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna, writer’s archive, agency