Nieobecne, opowiedziane. Opowiadanie Miejsce Andrzeja Stasiuka

Abstract

This essay is an interpretation of Andrzej Stasiuk’s story Place from the collection Tales of Galicia. This story, in which the author focuses on the problem of the perception of place, is read as a literary phenomenology of space. In a two-tier narration, the author attempts to reconstruct in his imagination the history of an Orthodox church that was moved to a museum. The sensory experience of place prompts the narrator to spin a story, which is meant to fill a gap in his memory. The analysis of Stasiuk’s story, focused on the way the narrative is constructed, also points to typical characteristics of the description of space from a phenomenological point of view. Jolanta Brach-Czaina’s essay Szczeliny istnienia provides the interpretative context.