Published : 2024-12-31

“The Unspeakable Delight in the Life of Travellers” and its Price: Difficulties and Dangers of Travel in Jan Potocki’s Accounts

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Jan Potocki described the pleasures of travel as “days of comfort and rest redeemed by days of inconvenience and toil.” A more valuable reward, however, was the acquisition of knowledge about humanity and the natural and cultural world. To achieve this, the traveller had to accept the inherent risks of any expedition. Travel was a crucial tool of cognition for Potocki, explaining his extensive wanderings. Consequently, the record of dangers he faced is both extensive and varied. Through textualisation, these dangers have become a topos of travel writing, and as elements of a narrative, they can be interpreted literarily. This perspective informs the present study, which draws upon Potocki’s accounts of his travels to Turkey and Egypt, the Netherlands, Morocco, the Caucasus, and China.

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Enlightenment travel, danger, hardship, topos, travel narrative



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Kupiszewska, A. (2024). “The Unspeakable Delight in the Life of Travellers” and its Price: Difficulties and Dangers of Travel in Jan Potocki’s Accounts. Facta Simonidis, 17(2), 163–180. https://doi.org/10.56583/fs.2734

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