Znowu dom, dom mimo wszystko

Abstract

The article constitutes a comparative analysis of Hanna Krall's Wyjątkowo długa linia and Jenny Erpenbeck's Klucz do ogrodu. Introducing the motif of the home, often-exploited in Polish and German literature, both writers infuse the subject with a "fresh" energy of social communication, especially in the field of the so-called historical grand narratives, both writers working within their particular socio-cultural spaces. The analysis of their writings shows that the meaningful topos merely exacerbates the complexity – if not the state of a certain clinch of space – of time and place, and their accumulation, which invariably appears in the newest prose when it enters into close relationship with historicity.