От окраины к центру: журнал Zeszyty Literackie и «триумвират поэтов» (Милош, Венцлова, Бродский)
From Periphery to the Centre: the Magazine Zeszyty Literackie and the Triumvirate of Poets (Miłosz, Brodski, Venclova)

Summary/Abstract: The postmodernist mind tends to consider non-spatial spheres in spatial terms, and literature is not an exception. The term “literary space” is more and more frequently offered instead of the traditional phrase “literary process” when it goes about juxtaposition of various texts. When looked upon under this angle, literature behaves like any other space, with its conventional places, utopias and heterotopias. The article in question deals with a particular kind of a literary heterotopia, namely, emigrant press, which acts as “other place” in relation to both cultural environments it exists in (both native and foreign). We closely analyse the Polish literary magazine Zeszyty Literackie (Literary Notebooks) of its Parisian period (1983–1989), and touch upon the role of the outstanding American poets of European origin – Czesław Miłosz, Joseph Brodsky and Tomas Venclova – in the creation and making of the magazine. The analysis claims that the participation of the “triumvirate of poets” in the edition had made it a “double heterotopia”, i. e., a “different place” within the emigrant press, as well.

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