Głos, Mikołaj2025-03-132025-03-132024red. Kinga Matuszko, Mikołaj Głos, Krystyna Gielarek-Gorczyca, Obszary Polonistyki 8 / 2024, s. 9-19978-83-8277-235-7https://repozytorium.ur.edu.pl/handle/item/11401Literature based on personal experiences can take various forms – an intimate relationship, somewhat closed to the reader-viewer who can only follow someone’s fate, or therapeutic works. These findings become the starting point for the analysis and interpretation of two novels – Polka (2001) by Manuela Gretkowska and Obsoletki (2010) by Justyna Bargielska. The main aim of the article is to analyze the writers’ (self-)portrait as mothers in the perspective of upcoming motherhood. By using the form of a novel diary, the authors try to work through the stress and trauma associated with (un)planned motherhood, which is unique in the context of contemporary Polish literature.polAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/mothermotherhoodpregnancycontemporary Polish women’s prosetherapeutic literaturearticle10.15584/978-83-8277-235-7_1