Studia Filologiczne UJK

Summary

The article concerns Letters to George – Maria Kuncewiczowa last literary work, written to commemorate her late husband. It is an excellent study of old age. On the cards Letters appears advanced in years, Maria Kuncewiczowa, alone because of her husband’s death, struggling with the problems of old age. Tracing the image of senility, the writer seems to say that the most difficult experience in the autumn of life is death of a loved one. Old age – as evidenced by Letters to George – it’s time of summarizing, reflect on life, it’s time of thinking about eternity, finally time to grow up to the faith, to find God. Old age is marked by the disease, but the image of the end of life created by Kuncewiczowa, despite many constraints is optimistic.