Wokół "Dolinami rzek" Zygmunta Glogera

Abstract

The author discusses the cognitive and aesthetic values of Zygmunt Gloger’s work Dolinami rzek (Along River Valleys). First and foremost the space-time structure of Gloger’s narrative is under consideration and analysis. The whole work is placed in the mainstream of travel-writing, including the romantic and realistic features of this literary genre. Dolinami rzek serves in Gloger’s work one unarticulated idea. It is the cultivation of the familiar environment, according to the sentence behind his Encyklopedia staropolska ilustrowana (Illustrated Old Polish Encyclopedia) “it is good to know foreign things, but it is a duty to know your own”.