Kaczmarek, Anna2022-06-102022-06-102014"Quêtes littéraires" 2014, nº 4, s. 38-46http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/3141The paper shows the importance of the motif of vagabondage recurrent in three of Zola’s short stories: For a Night of Love, Jacques Damour and The Death of Olivier Becaille. Their characters’ aimless wandering through the coutryside, through France or the entire world either means perfect happiness, time-filling strategy, or consequence of one’s past or bad luck. It is always opposed to immobility of sleep or death.frAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Zolashort storyvagabondagemobilityhappinessbad luckinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article10.31743/ql.4570