Publication details
Europa Andrzeja Stasiuka
| Title in English | Andrzej Stasiuk’s Europe |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Andrzej Stasiuk is one of the most successful and internationally acclaimed contemporary Polish writers. Born in 1960 in Warsaw, he is a writer, poet, essayist and literary critic. With Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych he co-authored a book entitled My Europe. Two essays on so-called Central Europe (2000). In the books entitled On the Road to Babadag, Fado and Diary Kept Afterwards Andrzej Stasiuk turns his attention to the villages and small towns of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia and Romania. It’s the mysterious journey through the other Europe. Based on the writer's texts, which are his personal project of Central Europe, the analysis is subject to the role of memory in writing, Central Europe as a place situated at the crossroads of Eastern and Western cultures and the influence of western culture on central Europeans. In both books Stasiuk shows too some common characteristics of people from Central Europe. These include the creation and belief in the myths, the provincialism, passivity toward the world and their own destiny. |