Invent an Island: A double Reading of the Book „Red snow on Etna" by Jarosław Mikołajewski and Paweł Smoleński

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2023.32.08

Keywords:

Jarosław Mikołajewski, Paweł Smoleński, reportage, Sicily

Abstract

The authors of the article follow Jarosław Mikołajewski and Paweł Smoleński who faced the Sicilian challenge in their book Red snow on Etna. They perceive this Italian island as a special part of the world where all social, cultural and political processes take place in a unique and endemic way. The text is divided into three parts. The first, initial one, constitutes an attempt to discover motivation and inspiration of the duo in question. The second, proper, part deals with multilevel considerations regarding a Sicilian sense of freedom. The last, final, one shows the escapist intentions of Mikołajewski and Smoleński to rebuild lost passions and will to live on the sidelines of their creative interests. A separate interpretative thread is reflection on the duality of the act of reading and writing, both in the alternating shuffle of their own fragments by the authors of the book and in the self-referential reflection of the authors of the article.

Author Biographies

Mariusz Jochemczyk, University of Silesia in Katowice

MARIUSZ JOCHEMCZYK – PhD, Professor of the University of Silesia, Faculty of Humanities, University of Silesia in Katowice. Katowice, Poland. He is a member of Historical and Literary Commission of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Katowice, a deputy editor-in-chief of „Fabrica Litterarum Polono-Italica” journal, a winner of the priest Weltzl’s award – “Upper Silesian Tacitus” (2016). He is an author of monograph books entitled Rzeczy piekielne. Wokół „Poematu Piasta Dantyszka” Juliusza Słowackiego [Hellish things. On the poem of Piast Dandtyszka by Juliusz Słowacki] (Katowice 2006), Sploty tradycji. Dwugłosy o literaturze polskiej
XX wieku [Weaves of tradition. Double voices of Polish literature of the 20th century] (Katowice 2014), Wobec tradycji. Śląskie szkice oikologiczne [Towards tradition. Silesian oicological sketches] (Katowice 2015), and a co-author of Nasz Broniewski. Prelekcje warszawskie [Our Broniewski. Warsaw prelections] (with Maciej Tramer and Miłosz Piotrowiak, Katowice 2010) and Myśleć Kafką. Teksty i konteksty [Think Kafka Texts and contexts] (with Józef Olejniczak and Miłosz Piotrowiak, Katowice 2023).

Miłosz Piotrowiak, University of Silesia in Katowice

MIŁOSZ PIOTROWIAK – PhD, Professor of the University of Silesia, Faculty of Humanities, University of Silesia in Katowice. Katowice, Poland. He is a member of Historical and Literary Commission of the Polish Academy
of Sciences in Katowice, a deputy editor-in-chief of „Fabrica Litterarum Polono-Italica” journal. He is an author of a monograph book entitled Testament/ idylla. Wiersze przybrane. Idylla/testament. Wiersze przebrane [A testament/an idyll. Adopted poems. An idyll/a testament. Selected poems] (Katowice 2013), and currently is working on the book devoted to war in the literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. He is a co-author of Nasz Broniewski. Prelekcje warszawskie [Our Broniewski. Warsaw prelections] (with Maciej Tramer and Mariusz Jochemczyk, Katowice 2010) and Myśleć Kafką. Teksty i konteksty [Think Kafka Texts and contexts] (with
Józef Olejniczak and Mariusz Jochemczyk, Katowice 2023).

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Published

2023-11-23

How to Cite

Jochemczyk, M., & Piotrowiak, M. (2023). Invent an Island: A double Reading of the Book „Red snow on Etna" by Jarosław Mikołajewski and Paweł Smoleński. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 32(2), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2023.32.08

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Vol. 32 No. 2 (2023): Describing the Modernity, Inventing the Future

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Światy non-fiction

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