Mierzyć na dzieło wielkich, widzieć pojedynczy kłos. O literackich mistrzach trzech ustrońskich „ludzi książki”
Aiming High at Works of Great Ones, Seeing a Single Spike. On Literary Masters of Three Ustroń Men of Letters

Summary/Abstract: Jan Szczepański, a sociologist, as well as bibliophiles and amateur historians Jan Wantuła and Józef Pilch are joined not only by their birthplace (Ustroń, Cieszyn Silesia), peasant origin and Evangelical denomination. They also were men of letters who projected their identity in relation to voraciously red literature. The article presents the references to their favourite writers and scholars systematised in their own writings. For Szczepański, these are Słowacki, Sienkiewicz, and Conrad; for Pilch – Mickiewicz, Pigoń, Sienkiewicz, while for Wantuła, Sienkiewicz, Prus, and Ochorowicz. The author of the sketch considers the reasons for such fascinations and what they speak about the article’s protagonists’ self-understanding. End point in this respect is indicating their common outlook on life which they linked with peasant-Protestant ethos and at the same time confronted with the admired writer’s ideas.

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