Abstrakt: | This article presents an unknown fairy-tale, written by the great actress of two
continents, called Titi, Nunu i Klembolo, czyli przygody dwóch liliowych chłopczyków i
psa o sześciu nogach (Titi, Nunu and Klembolo, or adventures of two lily boys and a dog
with six legs). This fairy-tale was written for her grandson Feliks in 1896. The manuscript,
which was thought to have been lost 100 years earlier, was found and published
for the first time in Poland in the year 2002.
The author of the article discusses the fairy-tale, focusing her attention both on
the plot and its morals and on the graphic design of the book, which includes photocopies
of beautiful illustrations and Art Nouveau vignettes produced by Helena
Modrzejewska herself.
Zofia Adamczykowa analyses and interprets the fairy-tale according to the poetics
of the genre, as well as to the history of literature, comparing it to a fairy-tale by
Maria Konopnicka which was published exactly when Modrzejewska’s story about the
lily boys was created. Adamczykowa proves that although the text in question can be
considered an example of the 19th-century explicit didacticism, yet, it is clearly influenced
by modernist techniques of description. |