In recent years adverse processes of suburbanization have been observed in cities. It has become a serious challenge for urban and transport planners, as it influences largely the quality of space, the quality of life, and the cost of running the city. This paper is dedicated to travel models in areas serviced by a railway system, and is based on a real-life survey example of the Błonie community, a district belonging to the Warsaw metropolitan area. Research carried out in 2014 focused on combined travels behaviors recorded using GPS locators as well as quantitative research (volumes of users across various transport systems).

Orhan Pamuk, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006, is one of the most interesting and versatile of contemporary writers whose prose contributes to the understanding of the cultural background of the Orient and the Occident forged out of the juxtaposition of Islam and Christianity. As a might-have-been artist, who is currently an amateur photographer, the author, in an uncommon way, visualizes the continual wonder towards colors in the surrounding reality featuring in his fictional and non-fictional texts. The most important aspects of Pamuk’s works, however, are the journeys near and far and those within oneself, as well as the wanderings through cities, especially those of his native Istanbul. Aside from the returns home and to the motherland, Pamuk contrasts the inspiring voyages out with the voyages into the collective and individual past, in all their historical and political complexity. The present paper is an overview of Orhan Pamuk’s works from the perspective of colors and the aforesaid passages, which remind his readers of travelling as a basic topos of the course of human existence.

The article La Rilettura del romanzo Il fu Mattia Pascal di Luigi Pirandello nell’otica del racconto cinematografico di Mario Monicelli, presents an individual story of Mattia Pascal and his reincarnations in Adriano Meis and the late Mattia Pascal. It concentrates on the journey of the main character, in the original dimension of time and space, in search of a new, happy life and of his identity. In reference to the subject matter included here, various different theories are applied to the cinematic analysis of the ‘new’ work of Pirandello.

The article presents a disastrous in the consequences earthquake between Sicily and Calabria described by different travelers of Grand Tour after 1783 and analyses the style and method of commenting these historical, tragic events. Several Polish intellectuals and politicians, disappointed in t he situation in the country had chosen the Southern Italy (Sicily, Calabria) and Malta as Destination of their travel. Who arrived there after the terrible earthquake and observed in Messina and/or Reggio Calabria the ruins of these important towns leaved very emotional description in their travel reports. The purpose of the article is to compare different human reactions as well as different ways of describing, from many points of view, the situations they found and observed.

The author investigated traffic flow quality on a new 2+1 long road bypass with an exceptionally high share of heavy vehicles in order to assess rational limits of heavy vehicle shares in traffic flow, dependent on the length of the 2+1 road and the number of passing segments in each direction. This paper presents the results of traffic flow quality analyses through the use of empirical and simulation methods for a single 2+1 road segment with additional passing lanes, as well as for the study of the entire section of the bypass – 2+1 road. Variables include analysis of travel speed distribution, platoon traffic, and amount of passing maneuvers. Results show that large passing demands lead to very high speeds (over 100 km/h) on segments with additional passing lanes. The conclusions include remarks related to the use and operation of 2+1 cross-sections with high shares of heavy vehicles.

This article tries to outline the history of the theater of the absurd in Poland by focusing on the metaphor of theatrum mundi (a device which is characteristic feature of this type of drama) and its use by Tymoteusz Karpowicz in his dramas Dziwny pasażer [A Strange Passenger], Charon od świtu do świtu [Charon from Dawn to Dawn], Kiedy ktoś zapuka [When Somebody Knocks], Człowiek z absolutnym węchem [The Man with an Absolute Sence of Smell], Przerwa w podróży [A Break in a Journey]. This metatheatrical device enables the dramatist to create a world of play-acting for its own sake, a world without God, with characters unable to look beyond the exigencies of their role and thus to express his disenchantment with the 20th century and his estrangement from the post-World War II reality. It also enables him to explore the mechanisms of theatrical performance and the role of language in the creation of reality.

Tekst koncentruje się na kwestii ruchów wewnętrznych i zewnętrznych człowieka w planie działań życiowych i myśli. Tworzą one fragmentaryczne i całościowe cele aktywnego świadomego i nieświadomego „ja”. Opisujemy je z perspektywy etycznej zarysowanej przez Henryka Elzenberga. Przedstawiamy rozmaite konteksty teoretyczne, które mogłyby tę perspektywę usprawiedliwiać. Analiza skupia się na wybranych refleksjach H. Elzenberga na temat znikającego „ja”, które zastępuje ból jako wskaźnik istnienia. Są to refleksje F. Znanieckiego, H.A. Murraya i Z. Galora (socjologia), C. Beersa, R. Lainga (psychiatria), C. Bernarda i K. Dąbrowskiego (medycyna) oraz F. Nietzschego (filozofia). Główną kategorią analizy jest pojęcie „ja”, które występuje jako centrum ludzkiej świadomości, działań, relacji oraz jako ruchomy ośrodek aktywności życiowej człowieka.

La Bible hébraque nous apporte un certain nombre d’informations sur les sages/ savants cté d’un roi ou au milieu d’une société. Malgré cela il est difficile de définire le rle et la place des sages dans la société israélite comme aussi l’histoire du mouvement sapiential au cours des sicles. Ben Sira vivant vers la fin de l’Ancien Testament est conscient d’eÎtre le dernier et le débiteur de tous ceux qui ont veÂcu et travaillé avant lui. Il est trs conscient de ce qu’il est dans la société contemporaine et il esquisse un portrait trs apparent d’un sage (Siracide 38,24-39,11). Selon lui tous les métiers sont utiles et nécessaires pour le fonctionnement de la cité. Mais le rle du sage dans la société est exceptionnel et tout fait indispensable. Seulement le sage est capable de donner bon conseil dans les cas difficiles et prendre parole dans le gouvernement de l’Etat.

Le sage est un homme qui étudie avec respect l’héritage du passé en particulier les écritures des auteurs inspirés. Mais il est autant soucieux d’enrichir cet héritage par raisonnement, par observation de la vie, par assimilation de la philosophie hellénistique qui a profondément pénétré dans la vie et pensée de la population juive pendant les derniers sicles de l’Ancien Testament. Le sage systématiquement construit sa sagesse par l’étude, par les voyages, par les contacts avec les hommes et surtout par la prire. Ce l’Esprit de Dieu qui finalement donne la sagesse et c’est par la force de l’Esprit que le sage formule ses pensées en tant qu’un prophte. A l’instar d’autres sages Ben Sira enseignait oralement la sagesse dans une école Jérusalem. Il a aussi exposé sa doctrine dans un livre l’usage de ceux qui désirent s’instruire. Il a écrit en hébreu et dans la forme poétique, alors la langue et la forme habituelle pour les livres sapientiaux juifs. Cet idéal présenté par la personne de Ben Sira et par son ouvrage est actuel aussi aujourd’hui: tous ceux qui veulent enseigner les gens, propager leurs idées par la radio, la presse, le livre, doivent d’abord soigneusement élaborer et évaluer leurs concepts et ensuite les exposer dans une forme la plus élégante.