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This article attempts to analyze the contest diaries written by LGBTQ+ individuals published in the collection <i>Cała siła, jaką czerpię na życie</i> [All the Strength I Muster to Live] (2022) from the perspective of life-writing strategies, the production of auto/biographical subjectivity, and the specific positioning of the authors in relation to the poetics of the contest monograph. The published testimonies are set in the scheme of both literary and sociological traditions of Polish diary writing from the 1930s. The text also draws on the project of anxious reading by Astrid Rash, through which, in the process of critical reading, it becomes necessary to activate individual areas of "selective empathy" towards the stories about experiences of violence and marginalization contained in the diaries. Keywords: competitive diary writing, LGBTQ+, life writing, anxious reading

This article considers François Bon's Autobiographie des objets in the wake of recent turns towards the object in philosophy and anthropology, and in the context of 'thing theory' within literary studies. It asks to what extent such strains of thought, organised around the object, are compatible with autobiography's generic privileging of a writing subject, but suggests that the meeting of these two arenas foregrounds the increased ubiquity of object-oriented ontologies and material approaches in all realms of the humanities. In François Bon's text, the pull of the subject remains nonetheless strong, speaking to the challenge of this shift. Ambiguously suspended, indeed, between object impassivity and subjective bias, this friction indicates, I will suggest, that such a novel 'pact' between autobiography and the inanimate object realm is precarious, and perhaps ultimately unsustainable.

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