SILENCE BECOMES THE TRAVELLER: A VIEW OF CONTEMPORARY SWEDISH SOCIETY

• Main Author: Alexandru GAFTON
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Editura Muzeul National al Literaturii Romane 2015-11-01
• Series: Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa
• Subjects: Swedish society; Travellers; the perception of otherness
• Online Access: http://www.diversite.eu/pdf/12_2/DICE_12.2_Full_Text_p155-p162-Alexandru-GAFTON.pdf

Travel memoirs or notes are texts which enjoy great popularity not only among almost all categories of researchers (humanists, artists, naturalists, sociologists, psychologists), but also among those who ar e fond of belles - lettres. Both the judgments by means of which a world perceives itself, perhaps adjusting itself according to certain desiderata, and the external judgments which may undergo changes according to certain patterns, are essentially subjected to sensorial and conceptual subjectivity, requiring its periodical adjustment to the natural laws of organic matter.