The geohistoriographic novel. Interdiscursive space of Koncert Wielkiej Niedźwiedzicy of Jerzy Limon Cover Image

Powieść geohistoriograficzna. Międzydyskursywna przestrzeń Koncertu Wielkiej Niedźwiedzicy Jerzego Limona
The geohistoriographic novel. Interdiscursive space of Koncert Wielkiej Niedźwiedzicy of Jerzy Limon

Author(s): Elżbieta Konończuk
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe
Keywords: Jerzy Limon; geo-poetic; geohistoriographic novel; topographical turn

Summary/Abstract: This article provides an interpretation of the novel of Jerzy Limon Koncert Wielkiej Niedźwiedzicy. Kantata na jedną ulicę, siedem gwiazd i dwa głosy, which is an example of the literature of the topographical turn. This novel tells stories of one street in Sopot (Haffner street), where the author-narrator lives. This novel implements not only the assumptions of geo-poetics but may also be called geohistoriographic, since the author presents a geographic concrete, the space of a city as a conveyor of historic knowledge, for the geographic space is for Limon the text in which one may read the past. The subject matter of the novel is a street fulfilling just the function of a text, or actually text-palimpsest, which is composed with layers of meanings recorded by particular historic eras.

  • Issue Year: 57/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 177-186
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish