(Z) archiwum kobiecej przyjaźni. Korespondencja Neli Samotyhowej i Emilii Andronowskiej (1898–1940)

Abstract

Nela Samotyhowa and Emilia Andronowska first met at the University of Geneva and they were very close friends for over 40 years. The former was a sociopolitical activist, art critic, teacher, and publicist with literary ambitions; the latter did not work professionally but revealed interest in literature and politics. Their little-known diaries and voluminous unpublished correspondence are an impressive testimony to this relationship. The article proposes to apply the category of “intimacy” to examine the autobiographical texts of both women and presents selected aspects of their friendship, from the early stages of fascination and the difficulties in naming the bond linking the students until 1940, when the Andronowski family was deported to Kazakhstan.