Wynaleźć wyspę. Podwójna lektura książki Czerwony śnieg na Etnie Jarosława Mikołajewskiego i Pawła Smoleńskiego
Invent an Island: A double Reading of the Book Red snow on Etna by Jarosław Mikołajewski and Paweł Smoleński

Summary/Abstract: The authors of the article follow Jarosław Mikołajewski and Paweł Smoleński who faced the Sicilian challenge in theirbook Red snow on Etna. They perceive this Italian island as a special part of the world where all social, cultural andpolitical processes take place in a unique and endemic way. The text is divided into three parts. The first, initial one,constitutes an attempt to discover motivation and inspiration of the duo in question. The second, proper, part dealswith multilevel considerations regarding a Sicilian sense of freedom. The last, final, one shows the escapist intentionsof Mikołajewski and Smoleński to rebuild lost passions and will to live on the sidelines of their creative interests. A separateinterpretative thread is reflection on the duality of the act of reading and writing, both in the alternating shuffleof their own fragments by the authors of the book and in the self-referential reflection of the authors of the article.

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