Miejsca pamięci czy pamięć miejsc? Kilka refleksji na temat uobecniania przeszłości w literaturze współczesnej / Sites of Memory or the Memory of Sites? A Few Thoughts About the Re-Presentation of History in Contemporary Literature

Abstract

Summary Armed with two terms lieux de mémoire (Pierre Nora) and non-lieu (Marc Auge), the author of this article revisits the field of literature and memory studies. With the help of these interdisciplinary tools she explores the sites where the tangled knots of History and literature, History and memory, and individual and collective memories are closely linked with a (metaphorical, pragmatic, psychological) locus. By virtue of that connectedness remembrance (recall of the past) is pregnant with multiple variants and possibilities. At the same time the literary lieux de mémoire undergo an evolution - from a ritualized commemoration through gradual loss of symbolic authority to indistinctness (atopia) - driven by the processes of history.