Abstract
This article is concerned with various modes of narrative memory in Travels with Herodotus,
considered against the background of Ryszard Kapuściński’s other travelogues. A close examination
of the specifi c manifestations of memory in terms of its content and the manner of remembering
and presenting a story reveals that each of the key narrative fi gures in Kapuściński’s factual fi ction,
i.e. the reporter, the writer, the historiographer, and the traveler, is endowed with a bundle of
narrative memory modes (attitudes). These attitudes are distinct and complementary, but they also
interlock in a way peculiar to each of the Kapuściński’s character types. Their integrity is also
secured by the author’s intention to keep track of ‘Memory [travelling] along the Roadways of
the World’.
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