Emigrantka – intelektualistka: przypadek Aurelii Wyleżyńskiej. Wstęp do badań

Abstract

The article is a literary (preliminary) attempt to look at the modest literary output of Aurelia Wyleżyńska, a writer and publicist, practically unknown and forgotten. It is also an attempt to discuss her female perspective on the world. The heroines of Wyleżyńska’s novel are strong, independent, courageous, lonely women who want happiness, love, and sometimes a partner. Seemingly weak and submissive, in fact resourceful, progressive, rising above the average, they do not give in to the pressure of the environment and from the most difficult experiences they can draw the knowledge necessary for further development, becoming advocates of change themselves. Wyleżyńska was then an emancipator in the best sense of the word, and at the same time managed to maintain a childlike sensitivity in observing the world.