Miejsca autobiograficzne Andrzeja Buszy
Andrzej Busza’s Autobiographical Places

Author(s): Jolanta Pasterska
Subject(s): Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Andrzej Busza; autobiographical place; Kosow; London; Vancouver;
Summary/Abstract: Andrzej Busza, expatriate writer, wanderer, and flaneur, creates his autobiographical place by drawing on a number of models, whose plurality corresponds to his nomadic life story and psychological make‑up. These topographic sites include such locations as Palestine, London, and Vancouver. Palestine as the first topographic site acquires the status of the primary space, to which the poet returns through the exercise of his own memory. Here, too, the process of self‑creation begins. Subsequent sites on Busza’s autobiographical map are shifted places. It is from their standpoint that the poet considers the possibility of taking root, of dwelling, as well as develops descriptions of “lost places”: Krakow, Kosow, even, in a sense, Palestine and London. These places also become a space for a dialogue between the present and the past. Finally, in the space of these shifted places one discerns “no‑places”, meeting points of identity and homelessness, which constitute the chief landmarks of Busza’s poetic topography.

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