Ja – dom – świat. O geopodmiotowości Norwida

Abstract

The paper concerns the problem of Norwid’s ‘nomadic auto‑centralization’ or, in other words, Norwid’s inscription of his own subjectivity into the topographic and temporal cultural space. The author of this paper uses examples selected from Norwid’s literary works, essays and epistolographic texts to show the conflict between ‘tellurism’, understood as a sense of strong attachment to one’s homeland and ‘nomadism’, i.e. travelling the world. Turning an existential experience into a cultural reflection and referring to personal circumstances in a wider social, political, philosophical and religious context have proven to be characteristic for Norwid’s work. In this paper Norwid has been recognized as an “intellectual nomad” who sees the diversity of the world as an opportunity (and even necessity) to create the “world culture” that will eventually lead people to their final destination, i.e. salvation in Christian terms.