Nowelistyczny tryptyk Stefanii Chledowskiej – zagubione ogniwo polskiego „bowaryzmu”?

Three psychological and customary studies by Stefania Chledowska (1850–1884), an obscure novelist, namely Impresjonistka (Impressionist), Z historii nie-bohaterow (From the History of Non-heroes), Babie lato (Indian summer) are original paraphrases of Flaubert’s bovarism. The references to French model are seen in the method of characters’ presentation, as well as on the fictional, stylistic and partially worldview level. Neurotic and bored heroines from upper class suffer from bovaristic hunger of sensual-psychical impressions and existential disappointment, while their adulterous affairs result in traumatic experience, and spiritual or physical destruction. The short stories’ auctorial tone includes an ironic distance from the world presented in them, pseudoromance melodrama as well as naturalistic accents (in the case of From the History of Non-heroes patterned after Alfons Daudet’s novel Fromont jeune et Risler ainé ).