Mieszkańcy masowej wyobraźni w Europie Środkowej w drugiej połowie XIX wieku
The Inhabitants of the Mass Imagination in Central Europe in the Second Half of the 19th Century

Author(s): Izabela Poniatowska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: popular literature; Central Europe; Sherlock Holmes; Don Quixote; Faustus; Barbara Ubryk
Summary/Abstract: Thanks to technological advances and the development of the media (the press, film and photography), in the second half of the 19th century, the world became smaller in a sense: cultural texts from different countries and continents started to interpenetrate. Not only were they translated (like Sherlock Holmes stories), but they were also adapted and travested to suit the readers they were addressed to, which was an important factor in the homogenisation of culture. This is how the heroes of mass imagination found themselves in Central Europe: Sherlock Holmes known here as “Szerlok”, Tarzan and “the invisible man” appeared in crime magazines and serial literature. The article attempts to describe how such mass imagination characters were adapted for Central European readers.

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