“Myśli o państwie” and “Kilka myśli, co nienowe”. Mysteries of Maria Dąbrowska’s journalism under occupation

Abstract

The publication of Maria Dąbrowska’s paper from 1942 entitled “Kilka myśli, co nienowe” [“A few thoughts, which are not new”], being so far in the typescript, is accompanied by an attempt to recreate the content of her lost political statement on totalitarianism, entitled Myśli o państwie [Thoughts about the state]. The unclear circumstances of the publication Rozmowy oniemiałych [Conversations of the speechless], an extensive record of discussions on Myśli o państwie [Thoughts about the state], written in the fall of 1942 in the London-based “Nowa Polska” were mentioned. Little-known circumstances of the writer’s underground journalistic activity, as she was related to many environments of that period: literary, cooperative and with the underground press, were investigated.