O podróży w świat literatury
About a Journey to the World of Literature

Summary/Abstract: War das Dichten will verstehen, /Muß ins Land der Dichtung gehen, /Wer den Dichter will verstehen, /Muß in Dichters Lande gehen – this is the motto of a number of remarks formulated by Johann W. Goethe to guarantee a better understanding of his collection of poems: The West-Eastern Divan.An analysis of the contexts whose impact gave rise to the motto, and a pursuit of questions whose posing it provoked, lead to such issues as pictorial qualities, Orientalism, world literature, and translation. Goethe the poet, the prose writer, and the scholar argued that a skilful and creative use of linguistic means opens up towards oneself and the world, while a voyage to the world of literature is tantamount to a voyage across the world.

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