%0 Journal Article %T Notions of Central Europe in Ziemowit Szczerek’s Międzymorze %A Siwor, Dorota %J Konteksty Kultury %V 2019 %R 10.4467/23531991KK.19.024.11250 %N Volume 16 Issue 2 %P 249-260 %K Ziemowit Szczerek, Central Europe, myth, Intermarium %@ 2083-7658 %D 2019 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/koncepcje-europy-srodkowej-w-miedzymorzu-ziemowita-szczerka %X The author analyses the image of contemporary Central Europe depicted by Ziemowit Szczerek as an area of continuous interplay between the centre and the periphery. Dissolution, chaos, and mythomania not only seem to indicate the nature of national communities, but also appear to be the reason behind the impossibility of realizing the idea of unification. The questions about the status of Szczerek’s statements, which balance between analytical diagnosis and literary narrative based on constructs of the imagination, are also vital for these considerations.