Stać w kolejce. Życie i literatura

Abstract

The article collects and organizes literary representations of queuing as experienced in the 80s of the 20th century, analysing – in the context of similar Russian works – “queuing” motives in the prose of Tadeusz Konwicki, Janusz Anderman, Jaroslaw Marek Rymkiewicz and, most of all, in the poetry of Stanisław Barańczak. In particular, it examines Barańczak’s poetic cycle Dojść do lady (wiersze nabywcze) [Get to the Counter <The Purchasing Poems>] which is rich in newly formed queuing idioms and gathers all the socio-psychological issues and phenomena, present in other writers’ writings piecemeal, giving them symbolic dimension.