“A Very Long Train Set”: on Wojciech Tomasik’s Train Books Cover Image

„Bardzo długi skład”: o książkach kolejowych Wojciecha Tomasika.
“A Very Long Train Set”: on Wojciech Tomasik’s Train Books

Review: Wojciech Tomasik: Ikona nowoczesności. Kolej w literaturze polskiej. Wyd. 2: Toruń 2015; Inna droga. Romantycy a kolej. W-a 2012; Pociąg do nowoczesności. Szkice kolejowe. W-a 2014; Szalony bieg. Kolej i ciemna nowoczesność. W-a 2015.

Author(s): Wacław Forajter
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Book-Review
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Wojciech Tomasik’s monpgraphs; railways in Polish culture; “modernity”; “modernism” and “modernisation”; Marxist historiography; history theory

Summary/Abstract: The review is a discussion on Wojciech Tomasik’s four monographs about railway in Polish culture. The superior categories of the issue’s critical view are “modernity,” “modernism,” and “modernisation.” The reviewer, employing the tools from Marxist historiography and history theory, also points at the concealments and gaps of the cognitive project which Tomasik formulated in his books.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 229-244
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish