O obliczach zła w życiu i twórczości Elżbiety Szemplińskiej
The Faces of Evil in the Life and Work of Elżbieta Szemplińska

Author(s): Beata Janicka
Subject(s): Ancient World, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: communism; evil; forgotten writer; interwar period;woman (writer);
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyse the path of Elżbieta Szemplińska, from a woman sensitive to the harms of the weak and humiliated people, to a “shrew” fanatically devoted to a destructive ideology. The first part of the article analyses the writer’s work and selected facts from her life before the Lviv period. In the second part the author analyses the opinions of people Szemplińska met in occupied Lviv. The last part of the article attempts to find an answer to the question how a woman living in such a system dealt with the structures of evil and whether was she able to remain innocent?

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