Tender Narrators. Four Generations of Women and the Female Saga in the Latest Polish Literature

 The article concerns the novels by Martyna Bunda Nieczułość, Anna Dziewit-Meller Od jed­nego Lucypera, and Joanna Bator Gorzko, gorzko. The author of text compares these from perspective relationship between mother daughter, grandmother granddaughter, as well category daughters sisters. In first part text, focused on changes in women’s literature after 1989, representations moth­erhood, demythologising figure Polish mother, put forward a thesis reconstruction female genealogy creation multi-generational relations women recent prose. second part, analysed Bunda, realisations sagas, with particular em­phasis poetics this genre its polemic against traditional, patriarchal model family story. referred to research cultural theory chang­es image literature. Analysing selected novels, drew attention, among other things, absence men structure, transgener­ational transmission trauma motif happy home. concluded that representatives youngest generation are deposito­ries stories, through which they can rethink their identity, relationships grandmothers sisters replace flawed complicated mother. conclusion, used tender narrator Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s lecture relation narratives, including quadruple occurs analysed.