„Cywilizacja? Puste słowo”. Antycywilizacjonizm w polskim podróżopisarstwie międzywojennym

The article discusses the criticism of civilization presented in interwar travel literature. author points out that critical attitude towards European is directly related to modernist paradigm. Interwar writers-travellers express their views using existing rhetorical figures, treating modern city as a metonymy civilization. Therefore, they use simple contrasts, such culture-nature, disease-health, old age-youth, dirt-cleanliness, etc. They seek escape from on outskirts or places perceived exotic. Tadeusz Dębicki and Kazimierz Nowak combine anti-civilization attitudes with anti-colonial views, unlike Ferdynand Ossendowski, who, while situation Europe, simultaneously expresses his enthusiasm for actions colonizers.