Open AccessPodróże i włóczęgi rowerowe Andrzeja Bobkowskiego
Author(s) -
Tomasz Sahaj
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
kultura i społeczeństwo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2300-195X
pISSN - 0023-5172
DOI - 10.35757/kis.2016.60.1.7
Subject(s) - german , scholarship , tourism , qualitative analysis , classics , literature , history , sociology , qualitative research , art , social science , political science , law , archaeology
The purpose of this article is to present and analyze selected travel accounts by the Polish emigrant Andrzej Bobkowski (1913–1961). In France, in spite of the ongoing war and then the German occupation, he undertook a number of cycling and sports-tourist expeditions; his phenomenal descriptions of these journeys have become part of the Polish literary canon. Bobkowski called his travels ‘bicycle tours’ and for him they were a form of expression inextricably connected with authentic existence and personal freedom in a world of totalitarianisms. The author employs comparative and the qualitative methods (content analysis) of scholarship.