The “Legiony” (Legions) Project. On Henryk Sienkiewicz’s final novel

Agnieszka Kuniczuk-Trzcinowicz

doi:10.18778/1505-9057.55.03

Authors

Agnieszka Kuniczuk-Trzcinowicz Ph.D., University of Warsaw, Faculty “Artes Liberales”, Nowy Świat 69, 00-046 Warszawa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6305-7595

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1505-9057.55.03

Keywords:

Sienkiewicz, rough draft, novel, textual varieties

Abstract

The archived rough draft of Legiony, the last novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz, contains 139 separate pages, including drafts of textual varieties, subsequent variants, and the printed version. The diverse material and the remaining writer’s notes enabled the researcher to present the author’s writing methods and his dilemmas. The rich collection of letters was the source of additional facts on his writing process. Similarly to other creative situations, Henryk Sienkiewicz worked in his characteristic way on the concept of the crucial fragments as well as on the mode of narration.

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Author Biography

Agnieszka Kuniczuk-Trzcinowicz, Ph.D., University of Warsaw, Faculty “Artes Liberales”, Nowy Świat 69, 00-046 Warszawa

Agnieszka Kuniczuk-Trzcinowicz, Ph.D. hab.; she works at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw. In her research, she focusses on manuscripts and tracing extra-literary heritage of the most outstanding writers of the latter half of the 19th century, which brings her research close to the area of genetic research, which has become her growing fascination. Recently, she also began following the development of animal studies and the opportunities of using that method in research into the 19th century. She cooperates with various academic centres throughout Poland and other countries in terms of academic works, student lectures and fulfilling grants. She is a member of the editorial board of the Góry, Literatura, Kultura annual. She is the author of: Czytane pod skreśleniem. Analiza procesu myślowego Sienkiewicza na podstawie rękopisów nowel (Warsaw 2017), Sienkiewicza talent i intuicja. Studia i szkice (Opole 2014), To ja, Sienkiewicz (Wrocław 2013).

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Kuniczuk-Trzcinowicz Agnieszka, Czytane pod skreśleniem. Sienkiewiczowskie bruliony nowel jako wskazówki do analizy procesu twórczego, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe SubLupa, 2017.

Kuniczuk-Trzcinowicz Agnieszka, “Urwana powieść–rękopis–fragment. ‘Legiony’ jako rzecz trudna”, in: Przekleństwo niekończonego, Łódź: Wydawnictwo UŁ, 2014, pp. 282–298.

Sienkiewicz Henryk, “Legiony. Powieść historyczna”, in: Pisma w układzie Ignacego Chrzanowskiego, Lviv: Gebethner i Wolff, 1932.

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Sienkiewicz Henryk, “Z Wenecji”, in: Pisma Henryka Sienkiewicza, vol. 3, Warsaw: Gebethner i Wolff, 1880.