Przepisywanie miasta. Poznańskie „przechadzkowniki” jako lokalny gatunek miejski

Abstract

This article presents three literary works describing the city of Poznań and constituting a kind of a series: Przechadzki po mieście (1888–1891) by Marceli Motty, Z moich wspomnień. Przechadzki po mieście [Poznaniu] (published 1997 but written in the fifties) by Paulina Cegielska and Ulicami mojego Poznania. Przechadzki z lat 1918–39 (1974) by Zbigniew Zakrzewski. The texts are linked not only by their common topic, but also by the same genre denotation indicated by their titles – przechadzki (“walks”), as well as by the fact that there is an intertextual connection between the last two books and the first one – which therefore should be treated as a prototype. This article tries to present “walks” as a specific urban genre which could be fully understood only in the frame of Poznań’s culture. When put in this context they appear to be topographic memoirs whose purpose is to reaffirm their authors’ belonging to Poznań’s local community of petit bourgeois intellectuals.