Etos odzwierciedlany, etos wytwarzany : o przepracowywaniu doświadczenia i konstrukcji tożsamości w pismach autobiograficznych Jana Szczepańskiego, Józefa Pilcha i Jana Wantuły

Abstract

The article explores new literary regional traits in autobiographical texts of Jan Szczepański, Józef Pilch and Jan Wantuła. The authors share common social background, all having been raised as Evangelical boys in Śląsk Cieszyński. While none of them has a formal literary background in strict sense, their texts show an interesting dynamics of narrative meanings. The reader is referred to the writers’ homeland, their own values, moral imperatives, and idiosyncratic understanding of Evangelicalpheasant ethos. The essay shows how this ethos is formed in narration to build the context for the interpretation of uneasy past experience.