“Like a tender needle through the heart” – distribution and function of detail in Andrzej Stasiuk’s descriptive strategies

Zofia Paetz

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A b s t r a k t

The paper discusses the significance and role of detail in works by Andrzej Stasiuk, considered in the context of reevaluating literary description as part of the descriptive turn. It analyzes how the distribution of presence in his texts allows to present the experience of history through sensually experiencing spatial relations expressed through descriptive strategies based on describing history preserved in things – strategies stemming from the awareness of accumulation of time.