Krupiński, Piotr2014-12-052014-12-052013Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, 2013, nr 21, s. 123-1461233-8680http://hdl.handle.net/10593/12304The main aim of the article is an analysis of entomological motifs in the Nałkowska’s wartime diary. The surprising frequency of these motifs gives an opportunity for a more general discussion: the key context for an explanation of insect metaphors seems to be the tendency, common for modernist authors, to place the concept of humanity in a widely understood philosophy of nature. The rule would also apply for the war, or more generally, for mechanisms of human violence, which Nałkowska subjects in her diary to a peculiar darwinistic representation. Understanding the war as a “naturalistic fact” (Hanna Kirchner’s description) results in a gradual blurring of the differences between the violence of nature and the violence of history. The author of the article has identified a similar procedure in Czesław Miłosz’s work, which constitutes a specific counterpoint for Nałkowska’s wartime diary.plZofia Nałkowskaliterature and entomologyhistory and naturewar (atrocity) and sociobiologyDzienniki czasu wojnyArtykuł