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Russia as a Life and Writing Experience: The Journals Of A White Sea Wolf by Mariusz Wilk

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Mariusz Wilk is a Polish prose‑writer, who travels to the remote north of Russia. His first book, The journals of a White Sea wolf reveals his originality. He tries to delve into the mysteries of the ‘Russian soul’ and history, for that he chooses to blend in with local life. That is why he settled in a faraway, but representative place, the Solovetsky Islands. He writes of the ordinary folk he meets on a daily basis. He discovers a world marked by the ruins of the Soviet prison system, but also by the secular presence of the monastery. In his notes, Wilk stops on some details with strong metaphorical potential. Finally, he writes of himself as a writer and a traveler. For in his writing and his travels, Wilk’s main aim is to find himself, to understand who he is, to think about writing that allows self‑transcendence, about the language and about the specificity of each word, with its emotional and symbolic charge. The journals of a White Sea wolf is a testimony on past and today’s Russia, a reflection on practice and literary genre of travel prose. Mariusz Wilk est un auteur polonais qui voyage dans la Russie du grand Nord. Son premier ouvrage, Le Journal d’un loup, révèle l’originalité de ce regard. Wilk cherche à découvrir la Russie en profondeur, en choisissant de se fondre dans la vie locale. Pour cela il s’installe dans les îles Solovki, un lieu excentré, mais représentatif à ses yeux, de l’histoire et de la mentalité russes. Il y découvre un monde en sursis, marqué par les ruines du système pénitentiaire soviétique, mais aussi par la présence séculaire du monastère. Dans ses notes, Wilk s’arrête sur certains détails à forte potentialité métaphorique. Enfin, il se livre à une réflexion sur son double statut d’écrivain et d’étranger, sur l’écriture qui permet le dépassement de soi, sur la langue et le mot, avec sa charge émotive et symbolique. Le Journal d’un loup est autant un témoignage sur la Russie d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, qu’une réflexion sur la pratique et l’écriture littéraire du voyage.
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Title: Russia as a Life and Writing Experience: The Journals Of A White Sea Wolf by Mariusz Wilk
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Mariusz Wilk is a Polish prose‑writer, who travels to the remote north of Russia.
His first book, The journals of a White Sea wolf reveals his originality.
He tries to delve into the mysteries of the ‘Russian soul’ and history, for that he chooses to blend in with local life.
That is why he settled in a faraway, but representative place, the Solovetsky Islands.
He writes of the ordinary folk he meets on a daily basis.
He discovers a world marked by the ruins of the Soviet prison system, but also by the secular presence of the monastery.
In his notes, Wilk stops on some details with strong metaphorical potential.
Finally, he writes of himself as a writer and a traveler.
For in his writing and his travels, Wilk’s main aim is to find himself, to understand who he is, to think about writing that allows self‑transcendence, about the language and about the specificity of each word, with its emotional and symbolic charge.
The journals of a White Sea wolf is a testimony on past and today’s Russia, a reflection on practice and literary genre of travel prose.
Mariusz Wilk est un auteur polonais qui voyage dans la Russie du grand Nord.
Son premier ouvrage, Le Journal d’un loup, révèle l’originalité de ce regard.
Wilk cherche à découvrir la Russie en profondeur, en choisissant de se fondre dans la vie locale.
Pour cela il s’installe dans les îles Solovki, un lieu excentré, mais représentatif à ses yeux, de l’histoire et de la mentalité russes.
Il y découvre un monde en sursis, marqué par les ruines du système pénitentiaire soviétique, mais aussi par la présence séculaire du monastère.
Dans ses notes, Wilk s’arrête sur certains détails à forte potentialité métaphorique.
Enfin, il se livre à une réflexion sur son double statut d’écrivain et d’étranger, sur l’écriture qui permet le dépassement de soi, sur la langue et le mot, avec sa charge émotive et symbolique.
Le Journal d’un loup est autant un témoignage sur la Russie d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, qu’une réflexion sur la pratique et l’écriture littéraire du voyage.

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