Szkic do portretu literackiego Marie Krysinskiej

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 exclu-sion. 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.