Introduction. The article introduces a typology of styles of fatherhood, primarily from a pedagogical and cultural perspective, and presents selected creations of fatherhood in the literary space. An example of a fi ctional, multifaceted, historically, and culturally transforming image of fatherhood is the trilogy by Małgorzata Kalicińska: House by the Backwater, Returns the Backwater and Love over the Backwater. Aim. The aim of the work is to reconstruct the image of fatherhood created in the family saga novels, with a dominant position of the female memoir narrative. Materials and methods. The article is descriptive and analytical in nature, it uses materials characteristic to the work of a philologist and a literary historian as well as to an educator (including elements of cultural theory of literature, family history and upbringing, explication of the text). Results. The analysis of three novels by Małgorzata Kalicińska (including particularly the construction of the characters of fathers) and a profound query of the subject literature devoted to the category of fatherhood, show that the author of the Masurian saga captured the image of male parenthood in its different varieties. On the background of the history of a lineage, presented as Polish patriots who settled in the northern part of the Polish lands, the author portrayed, next to some clearly outlined female heroines, several men whose fatherhood, against the background of cultural and social transformations, had different characters.