Aktywność sportowa w prozie Szczepana Twardocha
Sports Activity in Szczepan Twardoch’s Prose

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present the effects of the comparative research of SzczepanTwardoch’s prose. I analyze Twardoch’s work in many ways: a) which kinds of physicalactivity Twardoch engages in and describes; b) which sports disciplines most often occurin his writing; c) similarities in the presentation of sport in autobiographical narrationsof other authors of the Polish and foreign prose; d) the connection between sport andphilosophy, history of Poland and Silesia together with pseudo-fans, as elements ofcontemporary social reality. Linking elements seemingly remote – supporting, philosophy,sport, and literature – appears to be a risky and surprising operation. However, Polishcontemporary prose supplies us with numerous examples of a successful fusion of these,the marriage of high and low culture: widely-read novels of titled authors practicing sport.A flagship example can be the success of The King of Warsaw by Szczepan Twardoch.

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