Oswoić chorobę, oswoić śmierć – dziennik, pseudodziennik i autobiograficzna powieść popularna wobec doświadczania cierpienia (na przykładzie tekstów Krystyny Kofty, Anny Mazurkiewicz i Katarzyny Grocholi).

As it turns out, a grave (often incurable) disease can be a kind of a modern taboo. An attempt to break the silence is made by persons known from the media (especially women) who are suffering from illness or have had a contact with death (their own or of their loved ones). They are often actresses, painters, journalists or writers, sharing their experiences, openly speaking on what they have survived, presenting visual works (painting, photography, films, etc.) dealing with such topics, or publishing autobiographical texts (diaries, memoirs, feature articles, fictionalized prose, etc.) Testimonies of struggle against breast cancer, as analyzed in the article, include texts of autobiographical character by Katarzyna Grochola, Krystyna Kofta and Anna Mazurkiewicz. The writers have recorded a moving depiction of their experiences in an actual diary (K. Kofta), a pseudo-diary (A. Mazurkiewicz) and an autobiographical popular novel (K. Grochola). In case of K. Kofta, the diary account has been additionally supplemented with later drawings by the author. In case of all three writers mentioned above, speaking about disease, suffering and death contributes, to a lesser or greater degree, to breaking of the modern taboo