Wędrować, żeglować, wertować. O pewnych współczesnych metaforach podróży

Abstract

The article discusses a specific kind of journey which is browsing through. It is a journey through one’s own library, archives, collections of texts or photographs. It requires an act of “estrangement” (Szklowski’s term), that is looking at things as if one saw them for the very first time, although they have been created by ourselves. In another perspective, it is also a kind of “de-contextualization” of experience and its textual evidence. The article binds browsing with the category of walking, broadly interpreted in the German and English scientific literature. The model of a “walk” is treated there as a figure, or actually a metaphor of narration. It is accompanied by the need of dialogue – even if it is only an internal dialogue, a soliloquy. Two forms of such a dialogue: writing in the space of speech, and speech in the space of writing, are analyzed on the example of the series of Lapidaria by Ryszard Kapuściński, and the volume of Zawsze powrót (Forever Return) by Julia Hartwig.