Błędne mapy
Errant Maps

Summary/Abstract: The point of departure for the reflections pursued by the author of this article on the uniqueness of literary routes is a documentary film – Errant Maps (screenplay by Magdalena Barbaruk, directed by Szymon Uliasz, 2014) made by following the trails of Don Quixote. The film provides material for presenting the visualness of the tracks, both as regards the selection of tools that ought to be applied for examining and depicting such trails as well as issues of fundamental significance, associated with the necessity of being in places and participating in literary landscapes. With this purpose in mind the author recalled the conception of the “construction of the place” formulated by Ignatius of Loyola (Spiritual Exercises). The analysis focuses successively on the most essential visual forms of literary routes: photography, the cinema, and maps. The article ends with deliberations about wandering/erring, which the author believes are a metaphor of following a literary trail and which in the text obtained an axiological qualification. The literary route as such is defined as the reader’s way of life moulded by assorted values connected with the literary work, whose scenery is a landscape conceived as one of the symptoms of culture.

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