“I have heard the pen writing on the paper”. Memories from Sienkiewicz’s home

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34768/fp2017a15

Keywords:

Sienkiewicz, Oblęgorek, memories, daily existence

Abstract

In the article there were used fragments of housekeeper’s and maid’s memories employed by Henryk Sienkiewicz. The story – preserved in the archives of Polish Radio – shows daily routine of a Polish writer. So we get to know the author of Quo Vadis through the memories of people who had direct and often long-term contact with him. It extends the context for exploring the notions and interpretation of the Sienkiewicz’s works. The article also uses the writer’s correspondence and other written sources, broadening the circumstances of knowledge about Sienkiewicz – as an individual and public figure.

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Author Biography

  • Agnieszka Kuniczuk-Trzcinowicz, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Artes Liberales
    She obtained her Ph.D. in 2005 at the University of Wrocław. Assistant professor at the University of Warsaw (Faculty of “Artes Liberales”), collaborates with the Institute of Literary Research. Participant of grants thematically related to 19th-century literature and culture. Member of the editorial board of the yearly “Góry, Literatura, Kultura”. Her research interests focus on the work of Henryk Sienkiewicz and other creators of the positivism period, especially in the field of manuscripts, traces of the non-literary legacy of the most outstanding writers of the second half of the 19th century. She publishes in scientific journals in Poland and abroad. Author of the books: Sienkiewicz's talent and intuition. Studies and sketches (2014), Czyane pod skrzyżowaniem. Analize Proces myśliowego Sienkiewicza na rękopisów nowol (in print).

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Ratajek Z., Właściciel Oblęgorka, maszynopis pracy doktorskiej w zbiorach biblioteki Pałacyku Henryka Sienkiewicza w Oblęgorku, Oblęgorek 1964.

Relacja ustna Marii Luty w rozmowie z Henrykiem Urbanikiem, prawdopodobnie z 1957 roku, rękopis w zbiorach Pałacyku Henryka Sienkiewicza w Oblęgorku. Rękopis niewydany, brak sygnatury.

Sienkiewicz H., Listy, t. 4, cz. 3, red. M. Bokszczanin, Warszawa 2008.

Sienkiewiczowa Z., Wspomnienia o Marii Luty, maszynopis w zbiorach Pałacyku Henryka Sienkiewicza w Oblęgorku, Oblęgorek 1958-1968.

Wojtczak Ł., Od „szarej myszki” do „szarej eminencji” Oblęgorka. Maria Luta – gospodyni Henryka Sienkiewicza, w świetle zachowanych wspomnień, „Rocznik Muzeum Narodowego w Kielcach” 2011, t. 26.

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Published

2017-12-19

How to Cite

Kuniczuk-Trzcinowicz, Agnieszka. “‘I Have Heard the Pen Writing on the Paper’. Memories from Sienkiewicz’s Home”. Filologia Polska. Roczniki Naukowe Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego, vol. 3, Dec. 2017, pp. 301-10, https://doi.org/10.34768/fp2017a15.

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