Iskandera pamiętnik ludzi i czasów. Rozważania genologiczne

The author began his works on My past and thoughts in autumn 1852. He wanted to describe the story of his love to Natalya Zakhariyna and indicate the causes which led to his wife’s death. Thus, at the core of his work was the most frequent of reasons for writing: assessment of one’s own existence, taking a look back to find an answer to the question of why life went on the way it did. My past and thoughts by Alexander Herzen is a work combining various traditions: autobiography, diary, letter, journal, confession. This paper is an attempt to investigate the way these forms are present in the work of the Russian writer, in order to prove that it is a syncretic genre. The author went beyond the established genre codes, creating an original literary, journalistic and philosophical work of art

"Istotne rozmowy": Elsie Rosaline Masson i Bronisław Malinowski

The article concerns correspondence between Bronisław Malinowski and his first wife, Elsie Rosaline Masson. The letters that initially the acquaintances, later on the engaged and finally spouses wrote to each other for many years, constitute exciting reading for both anthropologists and literary experts. Basing on them, one can make an attempt to not only reconstruct a development of the relationship between two people emotionally and intellectually close to each other, but also find out a lot on the functioning of the environment of ethnologists (especially the English ones) at that time. A separate issue can be short reports and self‑reflections by Malinowski concerning the field studies he conducted. A “literary nature” of these letters is as important as their referential layer. Published recently in Polish will certainly become an inspiring material for further research, not necessarily in the “centre” of a contemporary humanistic reflection