Krajobraz (literacki) Szczecina jako źródło tożsamości – geobiograficzna lektura zbioru opowiadań Pewnego razu w Szczecinie

Abstrakt

The author, taking the methodology of geopoetics as her basis, with particular emphasis on the categories of geobiographical experience and geopoetics of reception, analyses how the landscape in the anthology Pewnego razu w Szczecinie is used to construct the identity of the city’s inhabitants.Using selected short stories from the anthology as an example, the article highlights the strategies of creating a bond with the city based on the reader’s geobiographical experience: imitating direct ways of experiencing the city on a fictional level, evoking anthropological places, attempting to establish symbolic centre, and the process of imagining the past in places hollowed out from memory. The article argues that the experience of landscape in the reading of the anthology correlates strongly with the creation and practice of urban identity. The author also notes the connection of identity to the presence of bookshops in the city and to reading in general.