Przepisywanie przygody. Konteksty gatunkowe „Przygód Tomka” Alfreda Szklarskiego
Rewriting Adventure: Genre Contexts in Alfred Szklarski’s “Przygody Tomka”

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses Alfred Szklarski’s book series "Przygody Tomka" [The Adventures of Tomek] about Tomek Wilmowski, and focuses on shifts undergoing in young adult adventure fiction conventions. In the first part of the article the author concentrates on classic travel fiction composed at the turn of the century as well as Polish colonial novel. He then analyses one of the adventure works written by Szklarski in the period of Nazi occupation and further on studies the novel "Tomek w tarapatach" [Tomek Gets into Trouble] as an indirect link between Szklarski’s wartime literary work and his book series about Wilmowski. The article then goes on to discuss the types of adventure stories that were popular in the period of PRL (the Polish People’s Republic). In the final part, the author, taking advantage of such categories as ‘adventure,’ ‘hero,’ and ‘improbability,’ deliberates on how the classic characteristics of adventure texts are revealed on the pages of the book series in question.

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