Biography
Nałkowska was born into a family of intellectuals dedicated to issues of social justice, and studied at the clandestine Flying University under theLiterary output
Nałkowska's first literary success was the ''Romans Teresy Hennert'' (The Romance of Teresa Hennert, 1923) followed by a slew of popular novels. She is best known for her books ''Granica'' (Boundary, 1935), the ''Węzły życia'' (Bonds of Life, 1948) and ''Medaliony'' ('' Medallions'', 1947). In her writing, Nałkowska boldly tackled difficult and controversial subjects, professing in her 1932 article "Organizacja erotyzmu" (Structure of Eroticism) published in the '' Wiadomości Literackie'' magazine – the premier literary periodical in Poland at the time – that:...a rational, nay, intellectual approach to eroticism must be encouraged and strengthened, to allow for a consideration of eroticism in conjunction with other aspects of the life of the human community. Eroticism is not a private matter of the individual. It has its ramifications within all domains of human life and it is not possible to separate it from them by way of contemptuous disparagement in the name of morality, discretion, or yet by a demotion on the hierarchy of subjects worthy of intellectual attention: it cannot be isolated by prudery or relegated to science for its purely biological dimension."
Tribute
On November 10, 2014,Works
Novels
* Kobiety (''Women'', 1906), translated by Michael Henry Dziewicki, 1920 * Książę (''The Prince'', 1907) * Rówieśnice (''Contemporaries'', 1909) * Narcyza (1911) * Noc podniebna (''Heavenly night'', novella, 1911) * Węże i róże (''Snakes and roses'', 1914) * Hrabia Emil (''Count Emil'', 1920) * Na torfowiskach (''At the bogs'', 1922) * Romans Teresy Hennert (''The Romance of Teresa Hennert'', 1923), translated by Megan Thomas and Ewa Malachowska-Pasek, 2014 * Dom nad łąkami (''House upon the meadows'', autobiography, 1925) * Choucas (1927), translated by Ursula Phillips, 2014 (winner of the Found in Translation Award 2015) * Niedobra miłość (''Bad love'', 1928) * Granica (''Boundary'', 1935), translated by Ursula Phillips, 2016 * Niecierpliwi (''Anxious'',1938) * Węzły życia (''Living ties'', 1948) * Mój ojciec (''My father'', 1953)Short stories
* '' Medaliony'' (Medallions, 1946), a collection of 8 short stories about German World War II atrocities in occupied Poland, translated by Diana Kuprel, 2000Stage plays
* Dom kobiet (1930) * Dzień jego powrotu (1931) (''The Day of his Return'', translated by Marja Slomczanka, performed 1931) * Renata Słuczańska (1935)Further reading
* ''From Corsets to Communism: The Life and Times of Zofia Nalkowska'' by Jenny Robertson (Scotland Street Press, 2019)See also
*References
* Mortkowicz-Olczakowa, Hanna (1961). ''Bunt wspomnień.'' Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy. * This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article inExternal links
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