„Where Did I Wake Up”. Stanisław Barańczak’s Morning in an Apartment Block

Abstract

The article is an interpretation of the poem by Stanisław Barańczak, "Where Did I Wake Up" from the "Morning Diary" volume, based on the author's poetry and the research reflection on this subject. A close reading of the text, especially in its versification-compositional and symbolic dimensions, exposes the psychological fourth dimension of modernist architecture, while the analysis of the psychosomatic and perceptual situation of the subject enables the answer to the eponymous question of the poem, which goes beyond the socio-political truth of the concrete, becoming an identity and existential question, and metaphysical.