Anti-celebrity variant of contemporary journeying. Reportering pikareska from the “wild east” Cover Image

Antycelebrycki wariant współczesnego podróżopisarstwa Reporterska pikareska z „dzikiego wschodu
Anti-celebrity variant of contemporary journeying. Reportering pikareska from the “wild east”

Author(s): Izabela Adamczewska
Subject(s): Media studies, French Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature, American Literature
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: travelebrity; travel discourse; reportage; faction;

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is the Pikarean version of travel literature. The author puts the traveling ‘I’ in the foreground in the text, but creating an ostentatiously anti-media image. The strategy of self-compromise, which the author presents on the example of the travellers of Ted Conover, Sylvain Tesson, Jacek Hugo-Bader, Ziemowit Szczerek, Michał Księga and Juliusz Strachota, serves to emphasize / create the sincerity of the narrative situation. The adventurous “JA” in participatory reportage and other types of travel writing resembles an antihero whose roots are in pikaresce.

  • Issue Year: 60/2019
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 50-64
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish