Prawdziwsza Eliza Orzeszkowa (w świetle nowego wydania Autobiografii pisarki)

Abstract

The paper is devoted to three issues, the consideration of which leads to a new approach to Orzeszkowa. The first part concerns what Eliza Orzeszkowa regarded as “the mystery of her life and soul” and at the same time as the destructive fatalism of her life: the state of extreme psychological suffering experienced from early childhood, whose sources she could not find. The author attempts to understand it in the light of modern psychoanalytic knowledge. The second part of the paper is devoted to the discovery of previously unknown documents and iconographic materials related to Orzeszkowa’s biography. The third part presents a detailed analysis of errors in the previous editions of the four autobiographical texts of Orzeszkowa: “Wspomnienia”, “Autobiografiia w listach”, “Pamiętnik” and “Zwierzenia” and their new, manuscript-based edition in the book “Melancholia i poznanie. Autobiografie” by Eliza Orzeszkowa” in 2015.