Przestrzenie tekstu. O „Oficerze na nieszporach”
Spaces of a Text. About „Oficer na nieszporach”

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses Oficer na nieszporach, a novel by Leopold Buczkowski, published in 1975. The author based himself on the existing analyses of Buczkowski’s works by resorting to instruments offered by the narrativist philosophy of history ( primarily the Ankersmitian version), the spatial turn in literary studies, the William T. J. Mitchell typology of spatial forms, and the theory of chaos. Consequently, he distinguished three spaces: local, in which Przemyśl is conceived as a mental place, total (cultural) spacetime - a function of impossible historical narration patronised by the subject of the historian in spe, and the concrete space–territory of the Eastern front at the time of World War I, whose purpose is the destabilisation of the reader’s habits. Furthermore, the author examined Oficer... within the context of the third spatial form in literature and the theory of chaos, indicating the fractal structure of the novel and the attractorial-Escherian form of reading reconstructions. The conclusions drawn by author to a considerable measure confirm fundamental theses concerning Buczkowski’s poetics, albeit shifting the emphasis towards such issues as aesthetics, politics, memorativeness or epistemology.

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