Z perspektywy podróży. Polska proza niefikcjonalna po 1989 roku
From the perspective of voyage. Polish non-fiction prose after 1989

Summary/Abstract: The main subject of the paper is Polish non-fictional literature after 1989, and especially-the voyage literature, descriptions of journeys. The author proposes to distinguish tree basic models of the voyage writings in the Polish XX century literature. First, artistic voyage to the sources of European culture (Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Józef Wittlin, Jan Parandowski, Zbigniew Herbert, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński). Second, reportage (Ksawery Pruszyński, Melchior Wańkowicz, Ryszard Kapuściński). Third, personal reflections and observations (Wacław Sieroszewski, Ferdynand Goetel Aleksander Janta-Połczyński, Jerzy Stempowski). All these models are syncretic and heterogenous, as they combine elements of autobiographies, essays, fiction. Does the Polish voyage literature and, in general, non-fictional literature written after 1989 continue above-mentioned models? Or breaks with them? What are the new elements introduced to the traditional generic patterns by the new generation of Polish writers? The essay is an attempt to answer these intriguing questions.

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