Czy realizm magiczny? O prozie Andrzeja Stasiuka

Abstract

The prose of Andrzej Stasiuk does not undergo easy interpretation and description. Stasiuk’s subsequent works seem to follow different aesthetic formulas and different narrative rules. Dukla adds a new principle of anti- featureness and fragmentarism to prior searches within the genre of small narrative forms and novels. The narrative focuses on the description of a small provincial town, things and places that the narrator can see, record and juxtapose accidentally, apparently with no plan. However, the details of the presentation, narrative returns to place and things already described, their emotional colouring transform the provincial everyday reality into the world full of hidden magic meanings that are not named.