Słowa kluczowe: Manzoni, Neoclassicism, places of memory, Adda, Po, short story, fantasy, Romanticism, body, materialism, physiognomy, Zbigniew Herbert, “The Bitter Smell of Tulips, ” the speculative bubble in literature, “The Worn Profile of Roman Coins: Economy as a Literary Subject in the Works of Zbigniew Herbert”, demand bubble, speculative bubbles, tulipomania, economic speculation, economic gambling, stock exchange, cheap capital, economic crash, long-term economic stagnation, global financial crisis, The New Economic Criticism, past and identity, male adolescence, post-war Germany, Nazi Germany, Holocaust, Sylwester Chęciński, history of Poland, polish film, national myth, communism, bureaucracy, office, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Tadeusz Breza, Trybuna Ludu