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Introduction
c)Question:whoislisteningtowhom?,referringtowhatvarietiesofidentity
andlinguisticdiversitycanbefoundinthereadingoftextsdevotedtothe
existenceoftheCentralEuropeanGalicia?;
d)Question:whodoesnotlistentowhom/whodoesnothearwhom?,relatedthe
waythe“map”ofthemissingnarrativeslooks,whoimposesthedominant
narrativeinGalicia?;
e)ScientificdiscoursededicatedtoGalicia:itsfunctioninginthecultureof
differentcountriesoftheregion,itsopennessorexplicit/implicitcloseness
tothenarrativeoftheOther.
Thebookisdividedintothreeparts.Thefirstone,called“NarratedSpaces,”
referstothevariouswaysofrepresentationoftheGalicianterritoryfromthree
differentperspectives:theresidents,thevisitors,andthosewholeftGaliciabut
decidedtoreturntoit.
JerzyJarzębski,lookingatthemapofGalicia,focusedhisattentiononthe
ideologicaldimensionofthevisualaspectsandthedifferentflavorsofcartographic
languageconstitutingthespace.Hepointedtothepeculiar“seasonality”ofthe
region’sexistence,contributedtowiththechangingofnames,associatedwiththe
instabilityofthepoliticalsystem.ShoshanaRonenanalysedthenovelAGuest
fortheNight.ANovelbyShmuelYosefAgnon,anIsraeliNobelPrizewinner,
borninBuchach.InRonen’sview,therecordofthefallofthecitybecomes
awaytoexpresstheaporeticityofreturningtoGalicia.Thenextthreearticles
arerelatedtospecificpointsintheGalicianurbansphere.OlgaDerkachova,
basedontheexampleoftwoliteraryanthologiesЛiтературнийStanislawIФ
[LiteraryStanislaviv]andФранкiвськ,мiстоянголiв[Frankivsk,theCityof
Angels],describedaspecificareaofthecityof(atleast)doublePolish-Ukrainian
identity.HannaGosk,analyzingtheliterarynarrativesofAndrzejKuśniewiczand
ArturSandauer,drewattentiontotheeverydayfunctioningofcommonmemory,
ofteninvoluntary,aboutSambir;andAndrzejZieniewiczconsideredGaliciaas
aspecificallyunderstoodno-place,referring,inparticular,totheJewishareas
(Drohobych,Stryi,Sambir,Zamość)andtheirPolish-languagerepresentations.
PaulinaUrbańskastudiedtheobservationsofJaroslavHašekresultingfromatrip
toGaliciaandgatheredinthevolumeOPodhalu,Galicjii…Piłsudskim.Szkice
nieznane[AboutPodhale,Galiciaand…Piłsudski:UnknownSketches],focusing
ontheCzechperceptionofthespatialandsocialdimensionoftheregion.Tomasz
Wójcikanalyzedpoetictexts;hepointedtothedeclineofGalicia,asseenby
GeorgTrakl,LudwigWittgenstein,andTadeuszRóżewicz.Atthesametimehe
reconstructedGalicianepisodesintheirbiographies(mutuallyentangled)and
thePolishdialoguewiththeirexperiences,especiallypointingtothephantasm
ofdisappearingGalicia.
