Zabijanie klasyków. Cassus: Sienkiewicz
Murdering the Classics. Case: Sienkiewicz

Summary/Abstract: MURDERING THE CLASSICS. CASE: SIENKIEWICZ Summary Based on the 20 century reception of Henryk Sienkiewicz the author describes th the process of depreciation of the national canon as well as the procedure symbolically named “murdering the classics”, undergoing mostly in the popular culture. Sienkiewicz, one of the most renown classics of Polish literature, Nobel Prize Winner of 1905, well known abroad, became the object of manifold manipulation by the media, referring to the stereotypes and associations enrooted in the mentality of Poles, evoking the works, characters, novel situations and quotations from Sienkiewicz, but also referencing the writer’s legend, which has for 200 years been the source of both speculations and scientific research. Trans. M. Bucholc

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