Joe Alex (Maciej Słomczyński) and His "Czarne okręty" (Black Ships): A History of a Trojan Boy in Times of the Minoan Thalassocrasy
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- 1. Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw, Poland
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Maciej Słomczyński, writer, poet and playwright, a prominent translator of the English literature and the author of the acclaimed crime fiction stories, published under the pseudonym Joe Alex, is also the author of the historical-adventure novel for youth Czarne okręty [Black Ships]. Originally published in parts as a series, the novel shows us the fate of a Trojan boy, entangled in the intrigues of the Egyptian priests and conspiracies of the rulers of the Minoan Crete, and finally going for a quest to the far North in search of the mythical land of amber. The quest, resembling – due to its exotic – the Expedition of the Argonauts, despite deceptive success ends in fact in a disaster, the novel itself can be used as an example of a specific range of Bildungsroman dressed in ancient robes.
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