On Three Books From the Young Józef Mackiewicz’s Bookshelf
Adam FITAS
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin , Polandhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2523-0924
Abstract
The author discusses books that—to a large extent—formed the young Józef Mackiewicz as a thinker and writer. In his childhood, Mackiewicz was a passionate ‘natural scientist,’ and books by Alfred Brehm (in particular his Life of Animals), as well as those of by Modest Bogdanov, not only were his guidebooks in the world of nature, but provided for him the way of approaching the world as such, of conceiving it and spotting unnatural situations, also those manipulated and false. The author of the article aims at demonstrating the relation between the passions of the young Mackiewicz and the shaping of his outlook upon the world.
Keywords:
Józef Mackiewicz, nature, the world of nature, Alfred Brehm, Modest BogdanovFITAS, A. (2018). O trzech książkach z młodzieńczej biblioteczki Józefa Mackiewicza. Ethos. Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Pawła II KUL, 31(3), 283–292. https://doi.org/10.12887/31-2018-3-123-17
