Witness of the crack. Polish-German borderland in the poetry of Mark Lobo Wojciechowski Cover Image

Świadek pęknięcia. Polsko-niemieckie pogranicze w poezji Marka Lobo Wojciechowskiego
Witness of the crack. Polish-German borderland in the poetry of Mark Lobo Wojciechowski

Author(s): Mirosława Szott
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: palimpsest; miasto; heterotopia; historia; pogranicze; poezja; Gorzów Wielkopolski; Landsberg

Summary/Abstract: Marek Lobo Wojciechowski is a Lubusz writer intereseted in heterotopia phenomenon of the Western Lands of Poland. He attempts to understand and describe the Polish-German history of the place. This article is composed of two parts. First part concerns the image of the city that is presented in Wojciechowski’s poems. It is a place marked with the traces of its previous inhabitants. The second part shows the space of “post-Yalta Occident” in microscale: a house and things being inside. My goal is to answer the question whether the vision of Gorzów in this output is the image of two superimposed cities with palimpsest nature, or a merged city with dualistic nature.

  • Issue Year: 12/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 94-104
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish