Dukla – omfalos i miejsce peryferyjne

Abstract

The Subcarpathian town of Dukla is the subject of poetic works by Miron Białoszewski, Jerzy Harasymowicz, and Janusz Szuber, as well as a tome of prose by Andrzej Stasiuk. Literary representations of this place are distinguished by topographic realities and textualised by means of quotations from the chronicles of politics and culture of the “Duklaite imitation of France”. In the author’s descriptions, the town functions as a centre (omphalos) or a periphery of a lordly past. It is a pretext for a personal encounter with the sacral, palace, and park architecture. It does not, however, constitute a closed universum of signs, but opens an existential perspective onto the actors on the historical scene.