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Age of Root Voyages

Summary/Abstract: The author focuses on the ways in which Vilnius is remembered and reconstructed by some of the most prominent Polish writers raised in that place, i.e. in the poems of Czesław Miłosz. The image of the city, remembered as an idyllic space of childhood, undergoes various metamorphoses – it is transformed by memory and nostalgia, and confronted with reality only after several decades. In her text Walentyna Krupowies analyses the complex work of memory and oblivion in the process of shaping of the literary image of the place and carefully re-reads some of the classic texts of Polish literature of the past century.

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