Doświadczenie przestrzeni i czasu w polskich dziennikach wojennych

Abstract

The analysis of the relationship between time and space recorded in the war diaries concentrates on the problem of “familiarizing” with the world under threat. A major determinant of the created and re-created realities is the question of feeling comparatively safe from physical and mental threat. The diary writers aim at searching for the asylum a home no longer provides. Being lost in space is accompanied by temporary suspension. The occupation period is the time of endless awaiting either a dawn of liberation or death. A man directly involved in the realities of war finds himself trapped in the space-time prison.