Tusitala i jego polski czytelnik
Tusitala and his Polish Reader

Summary/Abstract: This text by Carlo Ginzburg analyses the complicated fate of the leitmotif of Robert L. Stevenson’s ‘The Bottle Imp’. It enabled Italian historian to discover astonishing links between fiction, reality, and scientific cognition, and to formulate a daring theory claiming that Bronisław Malinowski would have not formulated his most famous scientific thesis if he had not earlier read Stevenson’s story. In other words, the expedition to the Triobriand Islands would have not been realised in the cognitive sense were it not for the knowledge provided by literary fiction.

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