@ARTICLE{Samborska-Kukuć_Dorota_“The_2021,
 author={Samborska-Kukuć, Dorota},
 number={No 1 (364)},
 journal={Ruch Literacki},
 pages={27-40},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2021},
 publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka},
 publisher={Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki},
 abstract={A volume of poems Życia mego kwiat [ The Flower of My Life] by Maria Czajkowska, née Grabińska, published posthumously in 1921 – alongside her brother's (Stefan Grabiński) horror play Ciemne siły [ Dark Forces] – includes just over twenty poems, mostly sonnets, written in the poetic style characteristic of the Young Poland movement. Most of them seem to have been written between 1917 and 1918, after the death of Maria Czajkowska’s sister Jarosława; yet even those that may predate that tragic event are steeped in a mood of unrelieved melancholy and grief. Together, they can be read as a record of the poet’s spiritual biography, dominated by the trauma of waiting for death and the burden of a miserable and unhappy life. With her allegiance to Young Poland's mannered style, replete with metaphors of illness, demise and destruction, Czajkowska may appear outmoded in the post-war literary scene, and yet her poems cannot be denied an originality and authenticity of their own. Moreover, her dark introvertism is not unlike the Gothic strain of her brother’s popular fiction.},
 type={Artykuły / Articles},
 title={“The open book of ill fate”: Maria Czajkowska's melancholy poems},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/121175/PDF/2021-01-RL-02-Samborska.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/rl.2021.137297},
 keywords={Polish literature in the early 20th century, Young Poland's legacy, melancholy, women's poetry, Stefan Grabiński (1887–1936), Maria Czajkowska, née Grabińska (1892–1918)},
}