Topografia pamięci w „Tajemnicy lorda Singelworth” Norwida
Topography of Memory in Norwid’s “Tajemnica Lorda Singelworth” (“Lord Singelworth’s Secret”)

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to reflect on the relationship between past and present in Cyprian Norwid’s "Tajemnica lorda Singelworth" ("Lord Singelworth’s Secret"), since the character from the novella’s title travels in a space marked by great history of the Republic of Venice. In this respect, Norwid gives on the topography of the city sightseen by the character the topography of memory. This memory brings back not only political history, but first and foremost the biographies of individuals crashed by the mechanisms of late modernity. Reflection on the role of history and memory in the reality of European social life in the second half of 19th century allows to picture the image of arising modernity – the process of Haussmannisation – criticised by Norwid, in its late phase.

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