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Nomada, wygnaniec, asymilant? “Krystaliczna sieć” Mirka Kovača jako wyraz duchowego tułactwa autora

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Żuchowicz-Szymańska M.

Pamiętnik Słowiański

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2011

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vol. 61

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issue 1

3-22

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Writing Crystal Bars, the book defined in this article as a novel concerning the problem of choices (in the world where none of the decisions taken is autonomous nor gives the promise of freedom), Kovač faced the problem of a serious choice, made for a lifetime. That was an individual choice, nevertheless subordinated to the systemic solutions. The writer’s decision to move out from Belgrad to Rovinj was not only the sign of independence but also the necessity imposed by the social and political situation. In this article, therefore, I ask the question: who is the protagonist-narrator of the novel: the exile, the nomad, the immigrant or the assimilated person? I hereby arrive at conclusion that he is partially each of these types. The world, though, makes itself accessible to him and takes the shape formed within the categories of internal experience. He always observes it from the point of view of a witness or the person taking part in the events (but not an engaged observer), always fragmentarily, from one point of view. Actually, all the characters of the novel lead nomadic lifestyle and are “homeless” in a certain way. Their lives consist in migration, constant change, mobility. They head to new adventures and, whilst tempted by “the unknown tomorrow”, open up the new chapters of their lives. Despite this, many doors remain close to them.

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L’errance du cœur et l’oubli des injustices chez Panaït Istrati

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Porumb A.

Quêtes littéraires

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2014

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issue 4

120-128

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Using a simple narrative technique, Panaït Istrati is an excellent painter of the Balkans and, above all, he is the friendship seeker. Our study starts from an interrogation: What makes the main character, Adrien Zograffi, wander from one place to another? Is there his taste of adventure or any ideal? The two parts of the work describe several important moments from the volume The Youth of Adrien Zograffi, where Romanians, Greeks and other nations from a Romanian town near the Danube share their happiness and their sadness.

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Vagabondage dans Le Mont Damion d’André Dhôtel

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Komandera A.

Quêtes littéraires

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2014

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issue 4

111-119

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The paper discusses the theme of wandering in the novel by French author André Dhôtel. The protagonist of Le Mont Damion, Fabien Gort, is not a typical vagrant, as he is a member of an intellectual and quite rich family. However, because of his strong absent-mindedness and strangeness, Fabien is unable to find a place in social structures. People’s hostility leads him to many wanderings and unexpected encounters which influence his existence. The novel seems to be also a generic wandering, as it possesses some features of picaresque novel, adventure novel, initiation story and fairytale fantasy.

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Religious Tourism on the Example of Nation Pilgrim Places in Slovakia (Patronages of the Virgin Mary)

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Judák V., Petrikovičová L., Akimjak A.

Journal of Education Culture and Society

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2022

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vol. 13

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issue 2

615-630

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Aim. Pilgrimage thus belongs to the oldest non-economic forms of migration and is a phenomenon that has intertwined throughout the history of religions. The aim of the article is to emphasize the important position of religious tourism as one of its forms. Based on the deep-rooted tradition of wandering in Slovakia, characterize important places of pilgrimage of national and perhaps partly international significance. Method. Terrain reconnaissance together with analysis of archival and parish documents. Results. Numerous Marian temples and chapels testify to the Marian veneration in Slovakia. Of the 5925 known patronages of churches and chapels (even those that have disappeared) in Slovakia, 1762 are dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Of these Marian patrons, 329 are consecrated by the Seven Sorrows of Our Virgin Mary. The result of field research is an analysis of six pilgrimage sites of national importance in Slovakia. Conclusion. Slovakia is a strongly Christian country with a tradition of wandering, as evidenced by many local and regional pilgrimage sites. Pilgrimage sites are understood as contact points that God has marked, they are the intersections where the ways of God meet the ways of people. There are mostly Marian pilgrimage sites in Slovakia and six of them (Marianka, Staré Hory, Levoča, Šaštín, Nitra, Ľutina) are of national importance.

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Le périple erratique de la mendiante durassienne

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Ledwina A.

Academic Journal of Modern Philology

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2022

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vol. Special Issue

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issue 17

67-74

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Marguerite Duras focuses on a rejected individual on the margins of society. Her literary characters oppose being perceived as devoid of autonomy, contesting the fixed model of a submissive and passive woman. On the contrary, they reject the social order and the traditional system of values, claiming the right to freedom and thus demonstrating transgressive female behaviour. Duras’ heroine, a mysterious, crazy person who is looking for love and is aware of her otherness and alienation, appears as a kind of femme fatale or a witch. This image of a “different woman – a disturbing, unhappy, lost, borderline person experiencing a specific crisis – is best illustrated by a beggar. She identifies, par excellence, with the wandering to the lands of perdition and its various readings. Her journey is, at the same time, a sign of dereliction, an attempt at liberation and a quest for identity.

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Przyjechali. Radosław Kobierski i jego Ziemia Nod: o miejscu tych, którzy błądzą

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Szymańska K.

Polonistyka. Innowacje

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2017

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issue 6

75-84

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The text is an attempt to take a look into novel entitled Ziemia Nod by Radosław Kobierski from the perspective of those characters, who wander. Exile is not only a forced and temporary place trade, but also a constantly renewing inner state of characters, who have different nationality, status and age. The essence of the title land is created with different and overlapping experiences of an exile, emigration and displacements.

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Tekst jest próbą przyjrzenia się powieści Ziemia Nod Radosława Kobierskiego z perspektywy tych bohaterów, którzy błądzą. Wygnanie nie jest w niej jedynie przymusową i przejściową zmianą miejsca, ale też nieustannie odnawiającym się stanem wewnętrznym bohaterów różnej narodowości, pozycji społecznej i wieku. Istotę tytułowej krainy tworzą kolejne, nakładające się na siebie doświadczenia tułaczki, emigracji i wysiedlenia.

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Du Paria à l’Émigré : une typologie des vagabonds post-révolutionnaires

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Sert H.

Quêtes littéraires

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2014

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issue 4

18-27

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The « great detention » analysed by Michel Foucault shows the fear societies have of wanderers and tramps. During the wholeclassical period, political and religious elites try to lock up people who don’t have neither home nor work, thinking that they are a danger to society’s order. Arts and literature represent this threat, reinforcing the negativity of wandering and mobility in minds. However, there is a time in French history leading to question this doxa. A political revolution turns these representations round. The French Revolution changes the camp of suspicion towards wandering. Starting from 1789, old elites, ironically, find themselves out in the streets with nothing. These people, the Émigrés, are the ones creating literature during the revolutionary period. This phenomenonaffects writing at this time, and arises ethical and aesthetic questions. The texts written in exile trying to answer these questions create a new sensibility which is going to influence the minds of the 19th century.

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En quête de soi, enquête sur soi. Représentations du vagabond dans Fuir (1988) de Linda Lê

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Assier J.

Quêtes littéraires

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2014

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issue 4

147-155

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In Fuir, Linda Lê features two characters – a vagrant nicknamed “Le Japonais” and the narrator, exiled to an unnamed Asian country – that seem to be re-cognized for what they are : lonely beings in search of an alter ego. Their improbable than astonishing meeting marks the beginning of a wandering both geographical and mental; the reader follows through the streets, alleys, driveways, sidepaths, pedestrian streets of indeterminate city symbolizing the maze of life whose meaning is to be decoded. The figure of the vagabond reflects the obsessions and concerns of the writer on his anguish of living. It also crystallizes its founding and formative reading, including the Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran and the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman who greatly influenced in the writing and the construction of her novel. Fuir is both a question about the absurdity of life and a metaphor for the condition of the exiled writer.

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Błędny rycerz, pielgrzym, tułacz, Rom – powroty do tematów nomadycznych w literaturze czeskiej

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Gawarecka A.

Bohemistyka

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2017

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issue 3

203-220

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The topics of pilgrimage, wandering or roam which were the main subject of the romantic anthropological ideas often returns in Czech literature. On the one hand these topics are included into the resources of universal motifs of the Western European culture, on the other hand they represents an important strand in the contemporary discussion on the modern conditio humana. The repetition of the nomadic topics, based on the advanced chain of the intertextual connections and assumed the preliminary understanding with the reader, who is knowledgeable in a world of the prearranged meanings and ways of representations of the figure of wanderer/pilgrim/ vagrant, is an argument of the long lasting field of imagination which is connected with this figure. It i also an suitable tool for the research of the journey as a symbol of human life.

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Tematyka pielgrzymki, tułaczki czy wędrowania powraca od czasów romantyzmu w literaturze czeskiej, z jednej strony wpisując się w konglomerat uniwersalnych motywów mieszczących się w kanonie przestrzeni imaginacyjnej kultury zachodniej, z drugiej strony zaś – stanowiąc istotny wątek w dyskusji na temat nowożytnej conditio humana. Powtarzalność tematów nomadycznych, oparta na rozbudowanej sieci intertekstualnych powiązań i zakładająca przedustawne porozumienie z czytelnikiem zorientowanym w świecie ustalonych znaczeń i sposobów reprezentacji figur wędrowca/pielgrzyma/tułacza, dowodzi zatem trwałości związa- nego z nimi pola wyobrażeniowego, stanowiąc zarazem dogodne narzędzie dla badań nad iteratywnym wymiarem symboliki życia jako szeroko rozumianej podróży.

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Winter Wandering on Snow Shoes as a Non-Religious Pilgrimage

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Jirásek I., Jirásková M.

Ido Movement for Culture. Journal of Martial Arts Anthropology

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2014

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vol. 14

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issue 2

47-51

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Background and study aim. The program of a two-week course consisted mainly in wandering on snow shoes in the Poloniny National Park at the border of Slovakia and Poland. This type of project enables its participants to encounter the raw reality of the outdoor environment in difficult natural conditions forcing the participants to involve their self-protective mechanisms needed for survival. Material and methods. The contribution utilizes the reflections of participants acquired in interviews (n = 12) and visualizations by means of Systemic Constellations (n = 19). Results. The findings imply that the most frequent themes among the respondents relate to thinking and searching (for oneself, for the purpose of life), stopping and calming, experiencing difficult situations (focusing on basic needs), natural behavior (e.g. related to dropping masks) as well as apprehension and fear and their overcoming. The symbolism of transcendence and spirituality is also quite evident in several of their statements. Conclusions. The way of experiencing in this type of course manifests the acquisition of a pilgrimage experience. Due to the non-religious spirituality as witnessed by the participants’ experience, such journeys can be legitimately classified as spiritual, non-religious pilgrimages.

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Praca przedstawia rezultaty badań dokonanych w czasie dwutygodniowego kursu zorganizowanego przez Vacation School of Lipnice, Czechy w 2011 roku, polegającego głównie na wędrówkach na rakietach śnieżnych w Parku Narodowym na granicy Słowacji i Polski. Ten typ projektu umożliwił uczestnikom poznać surową rzeczywistość środowiska zewnętrznego, a trudne warunki naturalne zmusiły uczestników do włączenia mechanizmów samo-ochronnych niezbędnych do przetrwania. W badaniu zostały wykorzystane refleksje uczestników uzyskane w czasie przeprowadzonych 45- minutowych wywiadów (n=12), nagrane do celów późniejszej analizy i wizualizacje wykonane przy pomocy Konstalacji Sytemowych (n=19) notujących niewerbalne zachowania respondentów. Obie te metody wzajemnie się uzupełniały. Wyniki sugerują, iż najczęstsze motywy wśród respondentów odnoszą się do myślenia i poszukiwania (dla siebie, dla życiowych celów), zatrzymania się i uspokojenia, przeżywania trudnych sytuacji (skupianie się na podstawowych potrzebach), naturalnego zachowania (np. związanego ze zrzucaniem masek), jak również wiążą się z obawą i strachem oraz ich przezwyciężeniem. Symbolika transcendencji i duchowości jest dość oczywista w kilku wypowiedziach. Autorzy dochodzą do wniosku, że ten typ wędrówki przypomina pielgrzymkę. Ze względu na nie-religijną duchowość stanowiącą część doświadczenia uczestników, takie wyjazdy mogą być w pełni klasyfikowane jako duchowe pielgrzymki niereligijne.

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Wandering Writers in the Himalaya: Contesting Narratives and Renunciation in Modern Hindi Literature

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Pozza N.

Cracow Indological Studies

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2015

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vol. 17: Crossing over “on the Birds’ Wings”: South Asian Literature in Local and Global Contexts

49-84

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The Himalayan setting—especially present-day Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand—has fascinated many a writer in India. Journeys, wanderings, and sojourns in the Himalaya by Hindi authors have resulted in many travelogues, as well as in some emblematic short stories of modern Hindi literature. If the environment of the Himalaya and its hill stations has inspired the plot of several fictional writings, the description of the life and traditions of its inhabitants has not been the main focus of these stories. Rather, the Himalayan setting has primarily been used as a narrative device to explore and contest the relationship between the mountain world and the intrusive presence of the external world (primarily British colonialism, but also patriarchal Hindu society). Moreover, and despite the anti-conformist approach of the writers selected for this paper (Agyeya, Mohan Rakesh, Nirmal Verma and Krishna Sobti), what mainly emerges from an analysis of their stories is that the Himalayan setting, no matter the way it is described, remains first and foremost a lasting topos for renunciation and liberation.

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The Labyrinth: Revisited and Reinhabited. Interpreting the Minoan Myth as a Metaphor For Contemporary Culture

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Gladden-Obidzińska B. J.

Dialogue and Universalism

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2018

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issue 1

177-194

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This article reconstructs and interprets the evolution of the Minoan myth’s reception in literature, fine arts, and urban development during the twentieth century. The author’s understanding of this evolution is based on three assumptions: a) myth is a polysemantic symbol of metaphysical and historical origins and function; b) myth reflects the relationship of the cognitive vs. creative mechanisms of human activity; and c) as symbolic, myth’s form must be treated as an image as much as it is a (discursive) narrative. As a motif in literature and the arts, the Minoan myth in particular has displayed all three of these aspects by allowing first its heroic narrative and, more recently, its formal structure (i.e., the tragic maze of moral and intellectual values) and visual setting (i.e., the actual labyrinth) to serve as porte-paroles of ongoing social and civilisational transformations: aestheticisation, deconstruction of cognitive and political hierarchies, technicisation, and intensive urbanisation. The displacement of the narrative and of the figure of the Minotaur is interpreted from the perspectives of psychoanalysis and post-structuralism.

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Patrick Keiller i “problem Londynu”.

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Piskorz A.

Kwartalnik Filmowy

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2019

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issue 107 Podróż, (E)migracja, pielgrzymka

116-125

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Patrick Keiller, brytyjski architekt i twórca filmowy, jest autorem „Trylogii Robinsona” (Londyn, Robinson in Space, Robinson in Ruins). W swoich filmach Keiller pokazuje miejsca niemal całkowicie pozbawione ludzkiej obecności i aktywności. Miejsca, w których mogą się rozgrywać jakieś wydarzenia postrzegane jako potencjalne współczesne mity. Filmowe eseje Keillera eksplorują znaczenie miejsca, produkcję przestrzeni, funkcjonowanie pamięci i nostalgii. Idea „dryfowania”, rozumiana jako gra przestrzennych skojarzeń, ujawnia fascynację Keillera architekturą, którą ukazuje, innowacyjnie operując obrazem, dźwiękiem i montażem. Tekst koncentruje się na pierwszej części trylogii, w której autor rozważa „problemu Londynu”.

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British architect and filmmaker Patrick Keiller is an author whose Robinson Trilogy (London, Robinson in Space, Robinson in Ruins) has been critically praised. Keiller’s unique style of filmmaking intentionally depicts places that are nearly or altogether devoid of human presence and activity. They are places in which events might take place, and the events are seen rather as possible contemporary myths. Keiller’s film essays explore the notions of place, the production of space, the workings of memory and the feeling of nostalgia. His investigation into the idea of ‘drifting,’ understood as a free-association in space, reveals Keiller’s fascination with the built environment presented in an innovate filmic way combining imagery, sound and editing. The presentation concentrates on the first part of his trilogy where the author addresses the ‘problem of London.’

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Hope found, hope lost – eschatological aspects in the interpretations of Israelites’ wilderness wanderings. Two sides of one story: Origen’s 27. Homily on the Book of Numbers and Jerome’s Letter 78

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Wysocki M.

Vox Patrum

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2017

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vol. 67

727-742

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Pisma Orygenesa i Hieronima, które są bazą źródłową artykułu, choć w różnej formie literackiej – homilia i list – i napisane w innym celu i w różnym czasie, oba ukazują egzegezę 33. rozdziału Księgi Liczb w którym opisane są postoje Narodu Wybranego na pustyni na drodze ku Ziemi Obiecanej. Oba dzieła są klasycznym przykładem interpretacji alegorycznej tekstu Pisma świętego. Obaj autorzy interpretują 42 postoje podczas wędrówki Izraela po pustyni przede wszystkim jako Boży plan duchowego rozwoju chrześcijanina, lecz także obecne są w ich rozważaniach elementy eschatologiczne. W prezentowanym artykule ukazane są te eschatologiczne idee obecne w obu interpretacjach wędrówki Narodu Wybranego ku Ziemi Obiecanej, źródła ich interpretacji, ich podobieństwa i różnice, zależność Hieronima od Orygenesa w jego interpretacji postojów na pustyni, ze szczególnym uwzględeniem idei eschatologii zrealizowanej obecnej w dziele Aleksandryjczyka. Orygenes w swej interpretacji przedstawił bogaty obraz eschatologicznej nadziei, podczac gdy Hieronim niemal w ogóle nie wspomina w swym liście o nadziei na drodze ku Bogu po śmierci.

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The writings of Origen and Jerome, which are the source of the article, although in a different literary form – a homily and a letter – and written for a different purpose and at different times, both are exegesis of the chapter 33 of the Book of Numbers in which the stops of the Israelites in the desert on the road to the Promised Land are described. Both texts are the classic examples of allegorical interpretation of the Scripture. Both authors interpret the 42 “stages” of Israel’s wilderness wanderings above all as God’s roadmap for the spiritual growth of individual believers, but there are present as well eschatological elements in their interpretations. In the presented paper there are shown these eschatological ideas of both authors included in their interpretations of the wandering of the Chosen People on their way to the Promised Land, sources of their interpretations, similarities and differences, and the dependence of Jerome on Origen in the interpretation of the stages, with the focuse on the idea of realized eschatology, present in Alexandrinian’s work. Origen has presented in his interpretation a very rich picture of the future hope, but Jerome almost nothing mentioned in his letter about hopes of the way towards God after death.

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Małe tęsknoty w "małej" prozie Roberta Walsera

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Pliszka M.

Transfer. Reception studies

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2022

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vol. 7

189-200

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Subject of this article is the theme of longing, its varieties and functions, in the small prose works of Robert Walser, published in Polish in the volumes Mały krajobraz ze śniegiem and Niedzielny spacer. In the light of Svetlana Boym's views, nostalgia takes two forms: restorative (longing for a lost past) and reflexive (prospective, focusing on longing as such). Robert Walser’s work is dominated by the second type of nostalgia; this theme, which is closely linked to desire, allows nostalgia to be situated in the symbolic order of space and movement; it is represented by metaphors associated with wandering, walking, stroll. Ultimately, reflexive longing rises in Walser's prose to the status of a basic existential situation and becomes one of the most essential determinants of human nature.

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Der Artikel befasst sich mit dem Motiv der Sehnsucht, ihren Variationen und Funk-tionen in kleinen Prosa-Werken von Robert Walser, die auf Polnisch in den Bänden Mały krajobraz ze śniegiem [Die kleine Schneelandschaft] und Niedzielny spacer [Der Sonntagsspa-ziergang] veröffentlicht wurden. Im Lichte der Ansichten von Svetlana Boym hat die Nostalgie zwei Formen: eine »restorative« (Sehnsucht nach der verlorenen Vergangenheit) und eine »reflexive« (prospektive, die sich auf die Sehnsucht als solche konzentriert). Im Werk von Robert Walser dominiert der zweite Typus der Nostalgie; dieses Motiv, das eng mit dem Wunsch verbunden ist, ermöglicht es, die Nostalgie in der symbolischen Ordnung von Raum und Bewegung zu verorten; sie wird durch Metaphorisierungen im Zusammenhang mit dem Wandern, dem Umherschweifen, dem Gehen dargestellt. Letztlich wächst die reflexive Sehn-sucht in Walsers Prosa zur existentiellen Grundsituation und wird zu einem der wesentlichs-ten Determinanten der menschlichen Natur.

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Artykuł dotyczy motywu tęsknoty, jej odmian i funkcji w małych prozach Roberta Walsera opublikowanych w języku polskim w tomach Mały krajobraz ze śniegiem i Niedzielny spacer. W świetle poglądów Svetlany Boym nostalgia przyjmuje dwie formy: restoratywną (tęsknota za utraconą przeszłością) i refleksyjną (prospektywną, skoncentrowaną na tęskno-cie jako takiej). W twórczości Roberta Walsera dominuje drugi rodzaj nostalgii; motyw ten, ściśle związany z pragnieniem, pozwala usytuować tęsknotę w porządku symbolicznym prze-strzeni i ruchu; reprezentują ją metaforyzacje związane z wędrówką, włóczęgą, spacerem. Ostatecznie refleksyjna tęsknota urasta w prozie Walsera do rangi podstawowej sytuacji eg-zystencjalnej i staje się jedną z najistotniejszych determinant ludzkiej natury.

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Nomada, wygnaniec, asymilant? “Krystaliczna sieć” Mirka Kovača jako wyraz duchowego tułactwa autora

L’errance du cœur et l’oubli des injustices chez Panaït Istrati

Vagabondage dans Le Mont Damion d’André Dhôtel

Religious Tourism on the Example of Nation Pilgrim Places in Slovakia (Patronages of the Virgin Mary)

Le périple erratique de la mendiante durassienne

Przyjechali. Radosław Kobierski i jego Ziemia Nod: o miejscu tych, którzy błądzą

Du Paria à l’Émigré : une typologie des vagabonds post-révolutionnaires

En quête de soi, enquête sur soi. Représentations du vagabond dans Fuir (1988) de Linda Lê

Błędny rycerz, pielgrzym, tułacz, Rom – powroty do tematów nomadycznych w literaturze czeskiej

Winter Wandering on Snow Shoes as a Non-Religious Pilgrimage

Wandering Writers in the Himalaya: Contesting Narratives and Renunciation in Modern Hindi Literature

The Labyrinth: Revisited and Reinhabited. Interpreting the Minoan Myth as a Metaphor For Contemporary Culture

Patrick Keiller i “problem Londynu”.

Hope found, hope lost – eschatological aspects in the interpretations of Israelites’ wilderness wanderings. Two sides of one story: Origen’s 27. Homily on the Book of Numbers and Jerome’s Letter 78

Małe tęsknoty w "małej" prozie Roberta Walsera