Przestrzenie starości w literaturze najnowszej – przekraczanie progu

Abstract

The author analyzes the relationships between spatial categories and the visions of old age, as it is gaining existential and metaphorical sense in the latest contemporary Polish literature. Characteristically, old age, the threshold phase between active multifaceted existence and limited degraded vegetation, resonates with negativity. As a consequence, both inner and outer perspectives of experiencing old age seem negatively charged. In the resulting analysis, the newest imagery of old age, together with the senescent space, generates a literary registry of non-places and negative heterotopias.