Fikcyjne mapy i święte topografie
Fictional Maps and Holy Topographies

Summary/Abstract: Literary rites possess a complex ontology and numerous ways of tackling the differently comprehended topography of reality. Naturally, it is possible to envisage a literary rite following the steps of Alice traversing the Wonderland, but the majority of such tracks leads across places for which empirical qualities are much more important than in the world portrayed by Carroll. The author of this article assumed that by tracing “maps” of the physical world literary fiction becomes primary vis a vis the former or outright establishes it. In this particular instance the empirical substance of reflections on ties between literature, topography, and memory consists of French journeys to the Holy Land, i.e. Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem by François-René de Chateaubriand and Voyage en Orient by Alphonse de Lamartine. The fundamental theme of the article consists of relations between literary texts depicting travels and the creation of likenesses of holy places in collective memory. With this purpose in mind the author evoked and discussed the views of Maurice Halbwachs, expressed in La topographie légendaire des évangiles en Terre sainte.

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