in new translations. In the United States, the Trilogy and Quo Vadis received a new treatment in the 1990s with English language versions by author-translator Wieslaw Kuniczak. These works quickly became controversial among veteran Sienkiewicz readers because of the adaptive approach used in producing these new editions. Kuniczak’s critics said that he crossed the line from translation to co-authorship.4 On the other hand, his defenders held that everything was done in the “spirit of” the original novels to make them “more accessible” to a new and wider English-speaking readership.5
Yet despite any controversy, the first book of the series, With Fire and Sword, quickly became a Book of the Month selection. This is ample evidence that Sienkiewicz continues to speak across time even to readers outside of Poland. He is gone. The centennial of his Nobel Prize in Literature has passed. Yet his unique vision of history, expressed with great narrative skill, continues to engage and fascinate readers willing to make the effort to know him.
Biographical sketch information from:
Borowiec, Jerzy. Encyclopedyczny Słownik Sławnych Polaków [An Encyclopedic Directory of Famous Poles], Warsaw: Oficyna Wydawniczo-Poligraficzna i Reklamowo Handlowa “Adam,” 1996.
1 From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969.
2 “and yet it moves”
3 “to have won the approval of important people is not the last degree of praise”
4 Harold B. Segel, book review in The Polish Review XXXVI, No. 4, (1991), p. 487; Michael J. Mikoś, book review in The Polish Review XXXVII, 2, (1992), p. 253.
5 The Trilogy Companion: A Reader’s Guide to the Trilogy of Henryk Sienkiewicz, Jerzy R. Krzyżanowski, ed., (New York: Copernicus Society of America and Hippocrene Books, 1991).
Works by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Letters from America (1876-1878)
Letters from Africa (1891-1892)
On a Single Card (1879) stage play
On Naturalism in the Novel (1880) literary critique
On the Historical Novel (1889) literary critique
Letters about Zola (1893) a study
Short Stories/Novellas
Humor from Worszala’s Portfolio (1872)
The Old Servant (1875) Stary Sługa
Hania (1875)
Charcoal Sketches (1877) Szkice Węglem
Selim Mirza (1877)
Janko Musician (1879) Janko Muzykant
For Bread (1880) Za Chlebem
Orso (1880)
Across the Steppes (1880) Przez Stepy
The Lighthouse Keeper (1881) Latarnik
Jamiol (1882)
Bartek the Victor (1882) Bartek Zwycięsca
Sachem (1889)
A Reminiscence from Mariposa (1889) Wspomnienie z Maripozy
The Third One (1889) Ta Trzecia
Sabala’s Tale (1889) Sabałowa Bajka
Novels
For Naught (1872) Na Marne
The Trilogy:
With Fire and Sword (1883-1884) Ogniem i Mieczem
The Deluge (1886) Potop
Colonel Wolodyjowski (1888) Pan Wołodyjowski
Without Dogma (1890) Bez Dogmatu
The Polaniecki Family (1894) Rodzina Połanieckich
Quo Vadis (1896)
The Teutonic Knights (1900) Krzyżacy
On the Field of Glory (1903-1905) Na Polu Chwały
Whirlpools (1910) Wiry
In Desert and Wilderness (1911) W Pustyni i w Puszczy
Legions (1914) Legiony
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