The image of New York in American literary non-fiction represented by Gay Talese’s A Serendipiter’s Journey
The Image of New York in American Literary Non-Fiction Represented by Gay Talese’s A Serendipiter’s Journey

Summary/Abstract: The paper is devoted to the image of New York City created by a representative ofAmerican post-war literary non-fiction, Gay Talese. What is especially brought into focusin the analyzed New York – A Serendipiter’s Journey is the approach the writer employs topresent his personal picture of the city. Talese’s attitude consists in combining some keytechniques of traditional reporting with a more individual and imaginative treatment relyingon a wanderer’s/stroller’s point of view. From the perspective of a city traveller New Yorkis unconventionally pictured through its untypical and usually unnoticed aspects such as e.g.forgotten places and odd occupations. It is emphasized that the writer’s image of the cityactually results from a number of pictures accumulated in the course of his own and manyother individual journeys. Finally, the paper accentuates the effectiveness of the literaryjournalistic technique of merging the non-fictional with the literary in order to convey theconvincing and credible vision of reality.

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