Odkrywanie cielesności. O bohaterkach powieści „Łuk” Juliusza Kadena-Bandrowskiego i „Kochanek Lady Chatterley” Dawida Herberta Lawrence’a

The article contains a comparative analysis of twofemaleprotagonists in Łuk by Juliusz Kaden Bandrowski and Lady Chatterley’s Lover by David Herbert Lawrence. The comparison draws from the fact that both writers were considered as scandalizing by their contemporaries. The two discussed novels present transformations of the heroines, socially liberatedas a result of the Great War. The article analyses the female discovery of sensuality as a common motif of the two novels. It shows the literary images of feminine sensuality in the context of interwar vitality, aesthetic experience of human body and sexuality perceived as visual and tactile sensations.