Ewa Głębicka as a commentator on Maria Dabrowska’s "Nights and Days". A comparative study against the background of earlier works on this novel

Abstract

The 2021 edition of Maria Dabrowska’s Nights and Days was published in the National Library series. It was prepared by Ewa Głębicka, whose 188-page Introduction is the subject of the analysis conducted in this article. The author documented this Introduction very thoroughly – she used Maria Dąbrowska’s Diaries and correspondence with various people (published and unpublished), all works by literary scholars and literary critics (books, articles, even minor contributions) on the subject of Dąbrowska and Nights and Days, as well as many other documents. Głębicka presented the more important facts about the life and creativity of Maria Dąbrowska and produced a versatile interpretation of the novel Nights and Days. Her findings were confronted with other research on the novel Nights and Days, conducted by Polish literary historians in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s: Tadeusz Drewnowski, Włodzimierz Maciąg, Ewa Korzeniewska, Henryk Markiewicz, Zdzisław Libera, Kazimierz Wyka and literary critic Andrzej Kijowski. Głębicka’s interpretation proposes a new point of view on
many issues and brings more details than anything  previously written about this novel.