Pisząc Wenecję. Znaczenie paradoksalne jako cecha konotacyjna
Writing Venice. Paradoxical Signification as a Connotational Feature

Summary/Abstract: In this text Venice has two faces. The process of deconstructing (epistemological) metaphors of that which is visible and that which is concealed and comprises a foundation serves a self-reflective connotation of the town’s irreducible ambivalence. Characteristic features of Venetian texts include a syntagmatic arrangement of metonymic descriptions constantly confirming this duality. If fictions are means for expressing imagination with the aid of signs “usually” used to depict reality then Venice presents itself as extremely similar to fiction. This homology causes it to be an ideal place for deconstructing oppositions, norms, and hierarchies. Consequently, for the traveller, man of letters, and author of novels Venice turns out to be a place for pursuing not so much the ethnography of the Other, but rather the anthropology of the ego. Venice is the site of fiction.

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