Abstract
Ignacy Krasicki lived in the tumultuous time of three partitions of Poland, the French Revolution, and the American War of Independence. In her 1994 book Enlightenment: The Threshold of Our Contemporaneity, Teresa Kostkiewiczowa proposes that the Enlightenment be understood as a gateway not so much to modernity as to contemporaneity. Within the European Enlightenment, Krasicki cuts the figure of an author who, first and foremost, construed complex literary tensions between the East and West of Europe in his oeuvre, and strengthened the image of Poland as a continuum between these two poles of European culture. It is time to take a closer look at Krasicki’s novel. The book unfolds in a chronological order and a memoiristic style, with its protagonist, the aging Polish nobleman Nicholas Wisdom, as its narrator. Nicholas Wisdom’s escape from Nipu opens Book Three of The Adventures, demonstrating step by step that a practical application of Nipuan knowledge to life beyond the imagined island’s perimeters is impossible.
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