Stefan Grabiński i kolej : szkic z pogranicza literaturoznawstwa i kolejnictwa

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.