Pograniczność jako kategoria konstruująca tożsamość autora w zbiorze esejów Karta rodiny Piotra Wajla

Abstract

The article analyses the problem of borderland-ness as a category that constitutes the text identity of an author. The work to which these deliberations refer is the collection of essays by Piotr Wajl, entitled Karta rodiny (Map of the Homeland). The author analyses Wajl’s essays using the notion of “autobiographical places” coined by Małgorzata Czermińska. Apart from that, she analyses the ways in which the author creates his own biography. In the book Karta rodiny, he builds it based on the idea of borderlands. He also includes various ethnical components in his national identity: being Russian, Jewish, and European.