Głos Filomeli

Anna Pekaniec’s book Autobiografki. Szkice o literaturze dokumentu osobistego kobiet (Women Autobiographers. Sketches on the Literature of Woman Personal Document, 2020) is subject of the review. Pekaniec makes the autobiographer the figure of mythological Philomela who, when devoid of her voice, sent encrypted message to her sister. The book is divided into four parts, namely Teorie (Theories) (on the category of evidence and letters), Tematy (Themes) (e.g. the January Uprising, family relations or diseases), Osoby (Persons) (e.g. Eliza Krasińska and Maria Morozowicz-Szczepkowska), and ultimately Paralele (Parallels) (on Gertrude Stein and Zofia Nałkowska).