Dwie Bułgarie Artura Nowaczewskiego

Abstract

This article analyses the travel book by Artur Nowaczewski (born 18 October 1978) entitled Hostel Nomadów [Hostel of Nomads] (Warsaw 2017). Its author is a literary historian, poet and traveller. His volume is a picture of the Bulgaria of the 21st century, which the author traverses together with other nomad travellers. The author sees a significant rupture in the book. Its first part is a record of the wanderings of a post-modern nomad, the second part is the testimony of an encounter with people, with Bulgarians, thanks to whom he discovers deeper layers of cognition in the country. From Bulgaria as a landscape, the background of the nomadic wanderings, he moves on to an encounter with a country with an old, fascinating, mysterious, national culture.