Jak i po co czytał Biblię Putrament? Refleksja nad kontekstami Wspomnienia z Maripozy Henryka Sienkiewicza

Abstract

In his article, Kazimierz Maciąg analyses the novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz Memories of Mariposa. The author is interested in the genesis of the novel associated especially with the American expedition of its author and his friend Karol Benni, a Warsaw doctor who was to meet the man who was the prototype of the main character of this work. The subject of the analysis is primarily the use of the Bible, whose reading of the 16th-century translation of Fr. Jakub Wujek is an important theme of the novel. The author analyses both the novel and the use of the biblical text by Sienkiewicz.