Biomythography of Henryk Sienkiewicz

The article deals with the biographies of Henryk Sienkiewicz created in connection with the writer’s death and the celebration of bringing his body to Warsaw. These are texts of a more journalistic than documentary character, marked by rhetorical pathos, building the figure of the national writer – the successor of the romantic poets. For the description of their specificity the concept has been used which appears in the biographical studies written in English as “biomythography”, understood as a particular type of ideological narration with a distinct surplus of symbolic meanings