Człowiek nienasycony. Projekcje zmysłowego doświadczania świata gór w prozie dla młodzieży (Jerzy i Helena Rytardowie, Józef Bieniasz)
The insatiable man. The projects of the sensual experiencing of the mountains in literature for young readers (Jerzy and Helena Rytard, Józef Bieniasz)

Author(s): Zofia Maria Budrewicz Sienko
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: interwar sports and nature novel for young people; multi-sensory experience; ski nove;, Jerzy and Helena Rytard; Józef Bieniasz
Summary/Abstract: The author analyses the presentations of multi-sensual experience in the interwar period literature about sport and nature, designed for young readers, on the example of the works by Jerzy and Helena Rytard as well as Józef Bieniasz. She claims that the knowledge about the external reality, which one gathers empirically, was an essential tool for the understanding of others. This type of knowledge determined numerous models and antimodels of behaviour, attitudes and beliefs. The sensual experience of the space of winter mountains was probably less important and it was used to illustrate the influence of cultural changes on the reliability (authority) of experience. The novels in question deeply affected the emotions of young characters and proved that man’s life is enriched thanks to nature, but it is also impoverished due to civilizational expansion. Novels about skiing illustrate this problem deeply and profoundly due to the fact that it allowed the readers to have an insight into the multi-sensual experience. A rich educational potential of the novels by the Rytards and by Bieniasz was fully actualized thanks to various techniques of discovering and experiencing Beauty, the mysteries of nature and the manifestations of its life, as well as to the broadly-based somatic experience of the skiers in their perception of kinaesthetic space.

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