Literatura wytwarzająca miejsce. Performatywność utworów Olgi Tokarczuk na przykładzie opowiadania Bardo. Szopka

Abstract

In her attempt to analyze Bardo. Szopka, the short story by Olga Tokarczuk from the collection Gra na wielu bębenkach, the author concentrates on performative function of literature. It is important to note that after the 1989 political transformation and due to such processes as globalisation and decentralisation, travel became so easily accessible that the destinations which were previously unknown came to emerge in people’s consciousness. This interpretation, in turn, aims to demonstrate how the short story ‘creates’ the town it describes. It is fiction, therefore, that shapes the existing Bardo.