Why bother going to Turkey? Cover Image

Po cóż jechać do Turcji?
Why bother going to Turkey?

Author(s): Izabela Jarosińska
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Turkey; Travel writing; Ludwika Śniadecka; Adam Mickiewicz; Polis Literature 19 c.

Summary/Abstract: An essay on a recent journey to Istanbul, along the route once made by Ludwika Śniadecka, one of the heroines of Polish Romanticism, and by Adam Mickiewicz, who embarked on a trip to that city against any better judgement and died there soon after his arrival, in November 1855.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 307-310
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Polish