Emocjonalna podróż przez polską historię: Powieść o duszy polskiej. Ojcowie Marii Zabojeckiej

Abstract

The author of the article analyses the work by the forgotten writer from the Young Poland period – Maria Zabojecka (1870–1932). The writer was born on the 15th of October 1870 as Malwina Posner, in a then fully assimilated Jewish family. During her life, she changed her name several times, to Malwina Garfeinowa-Garska, Malwina Zabojecka, and Maria Zabojecka. Maria Zabojecka was engaged in political initiatives connected with the independence and socialist movements, actively participating in various activities with the aim to improve the social relations and cooperating as a publicist. During that time, she also wrote a lengthy piece entitled Powieść o duszy polskiej [A Novel on the Polish Soul], which she, however, did not finish. This treatise on the heroism of the previous generations consisted of two parts, yet only the first one, entitled Ojcowie [Fathers] was published. It contains characteristics of the fighters for Poland’s independence, from the Bar Confederates to the participants in the January Uprising.