TY - JOUR
TI - Territories of the strange. Journey and writing at the limits of the human passion in Un monde sans rivage by Hélène Gaudy
AU - Rachwalska von Rejchwald, Jolanta
TI - Territories of the strange. Journey and writing at the limits of the human passion in Un monde sans rivage by Hélène Gaudy
AB - Hélène Gaudy’s story, Un monde sans rivage, was based on the authentic events of 1897. It is about the Swedish Andree’s balloon expedition to the North Pole, which ended in a catastrophe. The travelers’ remains were accidentally decanted in 1930 along with other items, including photos. Gaudy, taking historical facts as a starting point, translating visual into discursive ones, writes a story of an intriguing,heterogeneous form, which is the subject of analysis. The analytical key becomes the adjective “strange”, used by Andrée himself, which thus describes this journey. The presented analysis, with the help of the concept of strangeness, attempts to understand the essence of Andrée’s expedition in terms of human experience of the world and otherness, of crossing the limits of the possible.
VL - Volume 23 (2023)
IS - Volume 23, Issue 3
PY - 2024
SN - 1732-8705
C1 - 2084-3917
SP - 465
EP - 472
DO - 10.4467/20843917RC.23.048.19279
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/romanica-cracoviensia/article/territories-of-the-strange-journey-and-writing-at-the-limits-of-the-human-passion-in-un-monde-sans-rivage-by-helene-gaudy
KW - Hélène Gaudy
KW - Un monde sans rivage
KW - Andrée expedition
KW - strangeness
KW - fragmentary writing