Wojciech Browarny

The article "Polish Lusatia" – An Attempt at Literary Revitalization: On the Novels of Halina Barań describes the collective memory and the regional identity field of the contemporary inhabitants of the area between Kwisa and Lusatian Neisse. „Polish Lusatia” is a borderland and polycentric area, therefore the author of the article takes into account it’s relationship with Polish and Sorbian national identification, "post-German" traces in the local landscape and regionally dominant (Lower) Silesia. From this perspective, he discusses Halina Barań's novels about Lusatia, analyzing the historiosophy and geopolitics of her fiction, as well as popular tropes used by the Bogatynia’s writer, including the "sack" (panhandle) and "tripoint" metaphors.

This paper discusses select problems of the creative process in the prose of Tadeusz Różewicz through the analysis of corrections, notes, and graphic forms found in the writer’s archives that are stored in the National Ossoliński Institute. On the basis of his “graphical writings,” which include mainly handwritten texts and griffonages, the author of this paper traces the history of transformations of such literary projects as “reconstruction attempts,” unrealized novelistic plans and “pages from a journal.” The main conclusions resulting from the description of Różewicz’s workshop concern the writer’s attitude to his own work, subjectivity in the text, and autobiographical plans.

The article discusses Tadeusz Różewicz’s prose from the perspective of “postcards” as a compositional and skill-training format closely connected with the writer’s autobiographical output. The author of the article traces the presence and trans­formations of “postcards” in Różewicz’s fiction and, perhaps most importantly, in his lesser-known works: his journal, travel essays, memoir sketches, and metaliterary pieces.The aim of the article is to demonstrate that “postcards” appeared in Różewicz’s writing throughout his career, from his debut until his mature output, with this conclusion con­firmed even by a brief overview of the writer’s oeuvre. The author seeks to prove that the “postcards” are a complex and consistently applied writing technique which serves, among others, to compose pieces and imbue them with reflections on writing itself. They are also a tool for the author’s self-creation, an intermediary between his texts and the autobiogra­phy (re)constructed therein, a means in which his subjectivity and historical and existential experience become present in his writing.