Książka w książce : czyli co czytają bohaterowie "Jeżycjady"

Abstract

Małgorzata Musierowicz’s cycle Jeżycjada provides the reader, who follows the romantic entanglements of the members of the Borejko family, not only with entertainment. The novels written by the Poznań writer also teach, educate, and introduce their young readers into the world of a higher, elitist culture. It is this subject, that is the presence of literature in the novels for the young, that the present article has been devoted to. While analysing all parts of the cycle from the point of view of, for example, the Borejkos’ literary preferences, it is easy to notice that the printed word is given many important functions. The novels, poetry, philosophical essays by such outstanding and excellent authors as Marcus Aurelius, Adam Mickiewicz, Plato, Rainer Maria Rilke, Seneca, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Rev. Józef Tischner, or Stefan Żeromski make it possible for the characters to broaden their knowledge, but, first of all, they shape their outlook on the surrounding world, help in finding a way through the maze of everyday problems, and in choosing the optimal plan of action. Thus, the reader of Musierowicz’s novels absorbs, unwittingly as a rule, some good basic knowledge of literary and philosophical matters, while receiving, at the same time, some indirect pieces of advice concerning his or her further reading.