Sienkiewicz w lustrze biografii

• Authors: Chomiuk, Aleksandra

Title variants

PL

Sienkiewicz’s Reflection in the Biographical Mirror

Abstracts

EN

Relying on post-war biographies of Henryk Sienkiewicz, the article provides an insight into how his life as a writer was modelled through recurring similarities and differences of representation. Both factual and methodological portrayals seem uniform. In 1954 the biographical calendar presented by Julian Krzyżanowski became a point of reference for all following profiles of Sienkiewicz. Moreover, the biographers seem to utilize personal documents in a similar manner – they are to validate their stories. The resulting life writing appears to hold peculiar control over the protagonist’s life, suggesting that special-temporal distance allows us to see more than Sienkiewicz did himself.

Keywords

EN

Henryk Sienkiewicz; post-war biographies; life writing; representation

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
• Journal: Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 8

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Chomiuk, Aleksandra

Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11320/5346

DOI

10.15290/bsl.2016.08.08