Stefan Grabiński i kolej – szkic z pogranicza literaturoznawstwa i kolejnictwa
Stefan Grabiński and the railway – a sketch from the borderline of literature and railroading

Author(s): Michał Nikodem
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Theoretical Linguistics, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Stefan Grabiński; The Motion Demon; railway; literature; Galicia
Summary/Abstract: In my paper, I investigate Stefan Grabiński’s fascination on a railway. I analyse biographical materials, stories of his friends and writer’s own words to restore, in chronological order, his contacts with the railway. I use historical materials to supplement my research with concrete information about railway stations, trains and railway lines that were used by Grabiński. This historical reconstruction opens new perspective on the genesis of tome The Motion Demon and brings new interpretational opportunities. I also point out these fields of Grabiński biography which need to be precisely investigated in further historical researches.

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