Emocje lekturowego dzieciństwa we wspomnieniach współczesnych seniorów

Senior citizens today make up the last generation whose childhood passed without significant mass media consumption. It is a generation that was raised to respect the written word and the sanctity of books. This article presents an analysis of statements made by students of the Third Age University in Wroclaw about their childhood reading experiences, especially in relation to their emotional reactions to the most popular works of fiction from their childhood and the emotional relationships they forged with literary characters and their fates. The emotional circumstances of reading were also discussed, as well as the circumstance of first readings or community readings, emotional attachment to books as objects, e.g. gifted books or inaccessible books, and finally sentimental returns to youthful reading.