W cudzej przestrzeni – narracyjne gesty (samo)poznania w prozie przełomu XX i XXI wieku

Abstract

This essay attempts to elucidate the most important aspects of literary transformations of foreign space in prose works written at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In particular, the analysis focuses on Terminal by Marek Bieńczyk, Sońka by Ignacy Karpowicz and Ludzka rzecz by Paweł Potoroczyn. An analysis of the narrative strategies used in these works demonstrates that in contemporary texts the exploration of space marked as other, foreign, impossible to adapt to, can (and indeed often does) serve to create a clear vision of a narrator’s/author’s self-awareness, as well as to reveal stages that lead to an understanding of the limits of the creative process.