„Bez dogmatu” i konteksty twórczości Henryka Sienkiewicza w prasie czeskiej
“Bez dogmatu” (“Without Dogma”) and the Contexts of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Output in the Czech Press

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is a description of the reception of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s „Bez dogmatu” („Without Dogma”) in the Czech press after the publication of the novel’s Czech translation in the year 1899. The author presents the specificity of the reception and its evidence placed in advertisements, reviews, columns, commentaries, sketches, and occasional texts. As based on the mentioned novel, „Trylogia” („Trilogy”), and „Listy z podróźy” („Letters from a Journey”), Stępnik examines the functioning of the translation on the Czech book market, closely connected to the press. He assesses the connections, the purpose of which was promotion of this rendering in the categories dedicated to advertisement. The name of Sienkiewicz, that someway guaranteed the works’ quality, and the conviction of the novelist’s Slavophile attitude, was of paramount importance. Stępnik also describes the motif of “faint souls” raised in reviews of „Bez dogmatu” that connotes the novel’s modernist character, lists a fairy limited repertoire of intertextual references to Sienkiewicz’s work, and discerns the tragic love story plot that the novel’s reviewers surprisingly disregard. Ultimately, the author recalls some occasional texts produced at different times and for different occasions that contain a general characteristics and evaluation of Sienkiewicz’s output among which the most important place is occupied by historical novels.

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