Pod „powierzchnią życia” – twórczyni i Femme Maison w prozie Alice Munro
Under 'the surface of life': the female artist and the Femme Maison in the fiction of Alice Munro

Summary/Abstract: This article examines Alice Munro’s representations of female creators, focussing on works that explore the tension between women’s writerly ambitions and their roles as homemakers. Filipczak discusses “The Office,” a story from Munro’s first collection Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), the novel Lives of Girls and Women (1971), as well as ‘Meneseteung,’ a story from Friend of My Youth (1990). The heroines lead what Munro describes as double lives, since their artistic aspirations take the form of gothic secrets. Filipczak discusses Munro’s references to the literary canon and to popular literature, but she also builds on postcolonial studies and juxtaposes Munro’s work with that of the artist and sculptor Louise Bourgeois, who, like Munro, problematizes women’s relationships to the home.

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