Keywords
journeys of Poles to England
library research
reception of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s works
How to Cite
Abstract
The article focuses on Sienkiewicz’s one week-long stay in London during the first stage of his journey across the Atlantic, which was described in a series of reportages Letters from the Journey to America. The 19th-century England and its capital city are shown by Sienkiewicz as an exceptionally modern state, setting a direction for the whole Western civilization. The writer often compares the organization of English society to the Polish context, which enables him to criticize (in a roundabout way) the authorities of the Russian Partition for their retrograde economic and social policies. Following in the footsteps of the Polish Nobel prize winner, the authors of the article relate their research in the Polish Social and Cultural Association (POSK) and in the British Library. Its main focus was the reception of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s works outside Poland.
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Thompson Ewa M., Henryk Sienkiewicz and Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy: A Case of a Creative Borrowing, „The Polish Review” 1972, vol. 17, no. 3.
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