I dreamed about “CINEMA”. P.S. Cover Image

Śniło mi się “KINO”… Postscriptum
I dreamed about “CINEMA”. P.S.

Author(s): Adrian Gleń
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: ruins; Andrzej Stasiuk’s travel prose; ruins melancholy; ruins mysticism

Summary/Abstract: The text is an experimental combination of a scientific essay and reportage – a kind of literary field study. Following Wojciech Prażmowski’s photographs, the author travels to Solec-Zdrój in search of the place where the “KINO” once stood, as described in Andrzej Stasiuk’s Going to Babadag. Reconstructing the history of this building, the author rereads a key passage from the novel through the lens of Borges’s figure of the Alef.

  • Issue Year: 1/2026
  • Issue No: 52
  • Page Range: 279-296
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish
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