Sienkiewicz’s Reflection in the Biographical Mirror
Aleksandra Chomiuk
Wydział Humanistyczny. Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w LublinieAbstract
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:
Henryk Sienkiewicz, post-war biographies, life writing, representationWydział Humanistyczny. Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie
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