Ten wiecznie obcy. Szkic o peregrynacjach Juliusza Słowackiego

Abstract

The idyllic Krzemieniec, where the poet was bom, many of the greatest cities of the nineteenth century Europe and hated capital of France, finally - the courtesy visit to the king of Egypt and the recluse time in the Betcheshban monastery, hidden in the mountains of Lebanon ... Despite thousands of places that Juliusz Slowacki had visited rarely we think ofhim as a traveler. This "highly-qualified emigrant': even though he had spent most of his life in Paris, the capital of flaneurs, experienced the life of emigrant also in other countries. The oddity of poet was even expressing in the way he discovered new places, which, no matter its kind, never seemed to satisfy him for a long time. What was the nature ofhis traveling and self-perception as an eterna! "the other" and an uncanny stranger? What was the author of Podróż do Ziemi Świętej escaping from?