| dc.description.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. | en_EN |
