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The article concerns the literary manifestations of the functioning of the concept of „Central Europe”. The author starts his essay with an analysis of the political-historical origin of this term and subsequently reviews its contemporary representations in the works of Polish and Ukrainian writers (Stasiuk, Andruchowycz, Żadan, Irwaneć). In their works which take up the issue of collective identity, the above authors who themselves come from the region which they describe in their books, often resort to the use of elements of the Utopia and anti-Utopia. An analysis of this phenomenon leads one to observe that the works in question create the myth of Central Europe as a place whose role is to create an identity (between East and West) which in reality does not exist.

The article concerns the literary manifestations of the functioning of the concept of „Central Europe”. The author starts his essay with an analysis of the political-historical origin of this term and subsequently reviews its contemporary representations in the works of Polish and Ukrainian writers (Stasiuk, Andruchowycz, Żadan, Irwaneć). In their works which take up the issue of collective identity, the above authors who themselves come from the region which they describe in their books, often resort to the use of elements of the Utopia and anti-Utopia. An analysis of this phenomenon leads one to observe that the works in question create the myth of Central Europe as a place whose role is to create an identity (between East and West) which in reality does not exist.