TY - JOUR TI - Niedaleko pada książka od jabłoni. O symbolach biograficznych dwóch ustrońskich bibliofilów AU - Szkaradnik, Katarzyna TI - Niedaleko pada książka od jabłoni. O symbolach biograficznych dwóch ustrońskich bibliofilów AB - The article contains an analysis of autobiographical narratives of Jan Wantuła (1877–1953) and Józef Pilch (1913–1995) – two bibliophiles, amateur historians and folk writers from Ustroń (Cieszyn Silesia). The topic of the analysis are the ways in which they retrospectively structure their lives in the context of being suspended between the time of nature (growth cycle) and culture (historical, involving individuality, but also passing). Their understanding of the nature-culture dichotomy is influenced by their status of being self-taught men, who, aspiring to high culture, kept ennobling (their own) nature in the image of the gardener’s work. The figure of the orchardist (both Pilch and Wantuła were orchardists) belongs to the central symbols on which the representations of the authors’ biographies focus; the others are: apples, books, and the library understood as an interpersonal  sphere. From the hermeneutics perspective, the article presents the use of these symbols, and extracts from the analyzed narratives a project of grafting nature and culture together  through, on the one hand, grafting trees (literally and metaphorically), and, on the other hand, grafting oneself into books. VL - 2015 IS - Volume 12, Issue 4 PY - 2016 SN - 2083-7658 C1 - 2353-1991 SP - 409 EP - 425 DO - 10.4467/23531991KK.16.4776 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/niedaleko-pada-ksiazka-od-jabloni-o-symbolach-biograficznych-dwoch-ustronskich-bibliofilow KW - Jan Wantuła KW - Józef Pilch KW - autobiographism KW - nature KW - culture KW - bibliophilia