Drohobycz – Gorlice fragment większej całości
Drohobycz – Gorlice Fragment of a Larger Whol

Summary/Abstract: This is a story about a journey – real and mental – against the background of a war or actually two wars. A voyage under the banner of Bruno Schulz and Serhiy Zhadan, from Drohobycz to Gorlice, a small town in the Carpathian Mts., in which more than half of the pre-war population was composed of Jews, almost all of whom died in the Holocaust. The town grew on their blood and bodies. But this is also a journey beyond the town’s material dimension, to the land of shadows which had never departed but are still there. The past has not disappeared – on the contrary, it has as if accumulated and settled down on walls and trees, in the air and on the paving. The author follows traces and is interested in that, which at present is poorly known, unfamiliar, marginal, ignored, forgotten or slighted. In doing so, she attempts to extract from non-existence the stories of those about whom very little is known, and to establish a language in which we could talk to them. A language that, to cite Professor Roch Sulima, constitutes seeing through “nothingness, a process of coming nearer to the world with tenderness and not with perception-rule”.

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