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Bohaterem opowiadania jest Polak - Skawiński, który przybywa do Aspinwall, aby tu objąć posadę latarnika. Jest zmęczony życiem, które obfitowało w przygody, niestety zwykle kończące się dla Skawińskiego katastrofą. Wziąwszy udział w powstaniu musiał opuścić kraj, tułał się po całym świecie, wiele razy ryzykował życiem. W końcu zaczął szukać miejsca, gdzie na dobre mógłby się osiedlić. Wybrał Aspinwall i latarnię morską, gdzie rozpoczął ciche, spokojne życie.

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1881

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Henryk Sienkiewicz

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Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (also known as "Litwos"; May 5, 1846–November 15, 1916) was a Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. He was one of the most popular Polish writers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 for his "outstanding merits as an epic writer."

Born into an impoverished gentry family in the Podlasie village of Wola Okrzejska, in Russian-ruled Poland, Sienkiewicz wrote historical novels set during the Rzeczpospolita (Polish Republic, or Commonwealth). His works were noted for their negative portrayal of the Teutonic Order in The Teutonic Knights (Krzyżacy), which was remarkable as a significant portion of his readership lived under German rule. Many of his novels were first serialized in newspapers, and even today are still in print. In Poland, he is best known for his historical novels "With Fire and Sword", "The Deluge", and "Fire in the Steppe" (The Trilogy) set during the 17th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, while internationally he is best known for Quo Vadis, set in Nero's Rome. Quo Vadis has been filmed several times, most notably the 1951 version.

Sienkiewicz was meticulous in attempting to recreate the authenticity of historical language. In his Trilogy, for instance, he had his characters use the Polish language as he imagined it was spoken in the seventeenth century (in reality it was far more similar to 19th-century Polish than he imagined). In The Teutonic Knights, which relates to the Battle of Grunwald in 1410, he even had his characters speak a variety of medieval Polish which he recreated in part from archaic expressions then still common among the highlanders of Podhale.

In 1881, Sienkiewicz married Maria Szetkiewicz (1854-1885). They had two children, Henryk Józef (1882-1959) and Jadwiga Maria (1883–1969).

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3 reviews1 follower
November 13, 2021
chłop co mi nic w życiu nie wyszło i zamieszkał w latarni a później nawet to mu nie wyszło
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51 reviews1 follower
January 22, 2023
Skawiński cried while reading "Pan Tadeusz", because he was so mesmerized by it. I cried while reading "Pan Tadeusz", because I was physically in pain after reading a description of a tree, that went on for 5 pages.
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80 reviews
March 14, 2021
Ja po to czytam książki z pozytywizmu, żeby nie musieć słuchać romantyków. Ale Mickiewicz to umie swoje cztery litery wszędzie wepchnąć, no WSZĘDZIE.
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February 5, 2023
streszczenie szczegółowe latarnika jest dłuższe niż latarnik
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17 reviews
June 28, 2023
Podoba mi sie fakt, że latarnik stracił swoją pracę po przeczytaniu 'Pana Tadeusza'. Pokazuje to jakie złe są konsekwencje czytania poezji A. Mickiewicza.
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15 reviews2 followers
July 31, 2022
Nie rozumiem czemu to jest lekturą
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44 reviews6 followers
March 27, 2023
henryk jak zwykle się nie popisał
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114 reviews
June 21, 2020
«Per i suoi notevoli meriti come scrittore epico»(*)

Un racconto delicato e intriso di malinconia; una di quelle letture che una volta finita ci si prende un po’ di tempo per riflettere con tranquillità.
Il vecchio Skawinski, settant’anni, una vita di battaglie combattute nelle fila degli eserciti indipendentisti in tutto il mondo, accetta l’incarico di guardiano del faro di Aspinall, al largo di Panama, convinto di trovare finalmente un po’ di pace nei suoi ultimi anni di vita. Ma l'arrivo di un libro di poesie lo riporta alla sua patria perduta, la Polonia, alla malinconia della sua vita trascorsa in esilio, e il suo dolore si fa universale, diventa il dolore, la malinconia, lo struggimento di tutti gli esuli (come lo era Sienkiewicz stesso) costretti a finire i loro giorni lontani dalla patria, dalla terra che hanno tanto amato e per la quale hanno rinunciato a tutto.
Struggente.


(*) La motivazione del Nobel per la Letteratura assegnato a Henryk Sienkiewicz nel 1905.

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719 reviews17 followers
March 31, 2023
Update: Dałam wyższą ocenę
Nie spodziewałam się, że aż tak mi się spodoba. Tylko inwokacja (,,Pan Tadeusz") tak losowo się pojawia i wszystko psuje xD
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May 31, 2018
I'm flabbergasted (and i know its a silly old word) but indeed its absolutely mysterious to me why this story's rated less than 3 Stars! It is long, yes, it's descriptive, yes but if you failed to indulge the absolute beauty behind those words, then frankly, you have lead a very limited and comfortable life! The protagonist's longing for his homeland, and yet the writer's been abundantly careful that the theme remains one of human pursuit of meaning struggling against this eternal and uncertain existence that is life!
Oh, this story is a poem to the beauty inherent in life's will to survive and explore this apparently pointless existence!
It's one of the greatest pieces of classic literature, please, please, please rate it again after better consideration!
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84 reviews29 followers
December 31, 2022
jak na lekture nie takie zle ale wsm to bez sensu strasznie
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106 reviews6 followers
November 3, 2024
Najgorsza książka tego roku. Chciałam dać Dnf ale przypomniałam sobie ze to lektura która muszę przeczytać.🤝🏻📜
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892 reviews628 followers
March 8, 2025
Nie pamiętam, czy czytałam tę nowelę w szkole. Teraz bardzo mi się podobał jej wydźwięk. Prosta historia, ale czuć w niej tę tęsknotę bohatera za spokojem i ojczyzną.
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1,043 reviews184 followers
July 21, 2018
Skawinski è un vecchio che ne ha vissute di tutti i colori e, in cerca di pace, si candida come guardiano di un faro a Panama, ma la sua patria irrompe all'improvviso nella sua vita sotto forma di un libro.
Bellissime le descrizioni del mare e dei sentimenti di un vecchio patriota in esilio da troppo tempo.
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143 reviews5 followers
February 15, 2023
Bardzo wartościowa, krótka książka, która naprawdę skłania do refleksji.
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37 reviews1 follower
October 27, 2024
wsm to o chuj tu chodziło. chlop co doslownke nic mu w zyciu nie wyszlo, nawet siedzenie na latarni i praktycznie nic nie robienie xd
452 reviews46 followers
May 1, 2024
Kolejny polski miesiąc z Natalią kursywa więc zaczynam Latarnikiem (1 maja 2024)
Uwielbiam całym sercem. Kupiłam sobie piękne wydanie z wydawnictwa Bernardinum - polecam

Ponowna lektura 1 stycznia 2024

akcje czytelnicze
#polskistyczeń w ramach podróży czytelniczych z Natalią z kanału kursywa
Sięgnęłam pod wpływem lektury o Marii Skłodowskiej Curie bo wspomniano tam Sienkiewicza
Uwielbiam tę nowelę - bardzo mnie porusza


Wcześniejsza lektura grudzień 2022
świetny utwór ale chyba bardziej dla ludzi dorosłych, dojrzałych niż jako szkolna lektura choć rozumiem oczywiste powodu wyboru do kanonu lektur
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8 reviews
February 26, 2023
Myślę że ta książka jest za bardzo poważna jak na czas w którym jest ona omawiana w szkole podstawowej. Dopiero w latach licealnych jestem w stanie docenić jej wartość.. Dodatkowo uważam, że chociażby mała cząstka smutku głównego bohatera znajdzie odzwierciedlenie w nas samych, bo emocje te są ponad czasowe i nieprzemijalnej. Ocenę zaniżenia klasycznie język w jakim został napisany, wymaga więcej skupienia, ale nadaje tym samym klimat dawnych przeminionych lat.
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3,522 reviews194 followers
October 1, 2011
A short story about loneliness, being immigrant and patriotism. Short stuff not liked by high school students during high school and later years cause the language of the book and its interpretations.
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