"Życie to nie są jakieś tam frywolitki" : o "Jolancie" Sylwii Chutnik i "Pięćdziesiątce" Ingi Iwasiów

Abstract

For at least two decades the prose writers have been holding a dialogue with culture, demonstrating, among others, that the burden of experience cannot be left behind, and social conditions in which we grow up determine our present days and influence our future. The protagonists of feminine stories (as well as the writers themselves) test boundaries of various kinds: the possibilities of linguistic articulation, emotional expression, controverting the story or female endurance (mental and physical). It is sufficient to recall two novels published in 2015 (Jolanta by Sylwia Chutnik and Pięćdziesiątka by Inga Iwasiów) to see that the writers are not afraid to deal with difficult subjects and they try to prove that modern women, by developing various strategies of survival (the most important being the tactics of chameleon and the tactics of dodging), are strong, even if they do not come away unscathed from adversities.