Raz jeszcze o Paryżu Wokulskiego (u źródeł polskich rozpoznań własnej peryferyjności)
Once More on Wokulski’s Paris: At the Sources of Poland’s Understanding of Its Own Marginality

Summary/Abstract: Rereading Bolesław Prus’s novel The Doll, Kuziak explores how the protagonist Wokulski experiences Paris. This perspective sheds light on the emergence of Poland’s marginal position in the nineteenth-century world system, where Paris was a centre of civilisation. Prus’s novel portrays the birth of the Poles’ Great Other in the nineteenth century – the European, notably the French, and it provides an analysis of the reasons of Poland’smarginality.

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