CZY MOŻLIWA JEST MAPA "CZARNEGO POTOKU?"

Abstrakt

The article considers the possibility of drawing a map of the lands depicted in Leopold Buczkowski’s novel Black Torrent. The analysis focuses on issues that make the task complicated or difficult. While geographic details of local topography are very palpable in the fictional narrative, their rendering remains very subjective and varied due to a number of voices present in Black Torrent. The novel’s affective personalized narrative turns the local topography into a complex expressionistic structure in which real placenames are interspersed with fictional ones, which are yet derived from real geographical names. The article offers a comprehensive list of names whose locality is rooted in existing maps. It argues that the novel explores the opposition between real and verifiable cartography, and internal spaces, which are the cornerstone of literary fiction.