“…The most important source in this regard turned out to be representative surveys entitled Trajectoires et Origines (Trajectories and Origins), conducted in 2008 by INED and INSEE, 3 and utilised later in various publications (including Collet and Santelli 2012;Condon and Régnard 2010;Okba 2012;Pan Ké Shon 2011a, b;Simon 2012). The photographs included in the book were taken during [1922], 110-111 and 288-289), Józef Chałasiński (1979Chałasiński ( [1931Chałasiński ( ], 1938, Janusz Ziółkowski (1984) and Zygmunt Dulczewski (1975), one may formulate several important reasons why texts described even as 'only' novels can in fact be enormously helpful in studying the collective consciousness of a given group (see Kubera 2015). The use of texts of a literary nature also finds support in other schools of the biographical method (Denzin 2009(Denzin [1970: 220-238), including in the current represented by Fritz Schütze (2012), associated mainly with autobiographicalnarrative interviews (see Kaźmierska 2008, 19).…”