Szkic do portretu literackiego Marie Krysinskiej
A Sketch to Marie Krysinska’s Literary Portrait

Summary/Abstract: Marie Krysinska, a woman writer, composer and signer, made a substantial contribution to philosophy and aesthetics of her epoch. In her output she took up, inter alia, the issues of creativity, genius, and women’s place in society. Her work is characterised by diversity of sources and influences as various arts, literature and science enter in it into a continuous discourse. Krysinska’s connections with music constitute, e.g. her activity in two cabarets ”Les Hydropathes” and ”Le Chat noir”. In 1880s she was engaged into a controversy over free verse (vers libre); she disallowed to diminish her role in introduction free verse into French poetry, for which her contemporaries and later critics punished her by exclusion. The fight she fought for the free verse is predominantly a fight for acknowledging equality of men and women in the domain of science and art.

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