Wybrane aspekty recepcji twórczości Henryka Sienkiewicza na Śląsku : rekonesans

Abstract

While exploring the reception of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s works in Upper Silesia, the author ponders the following problems: 1) the impact of Katolik [Catholic], a newspaper written in Polish, on the preparation of recipients to the reading of the novels; 2) the influence of the message contained in the novels (the so called case of von Olszewski’s testament); and 3) artistic inspirations and ideological polemics with Sienkiewicz’s message (Jan Kupiec from Łąka). The paper argues that the reception of Sienkiewicz’s works by individual readers brought up in foreign cultural context can be remoulded not only into symbols of the revival of past familial connections with the motherland but can also become an origin of the fascination with the very phenomenon of national identity restitution.