"Spotkanie, którego nie będzie" : "Na wierzbach... nasze skrzypce" Juliana Stryjkowskiego

Abstract

Grażyna Maroszczuk’s sketch concerns the migration experience of the writer, whom fate and history sentenced to frequent changes of abode due to political coercion, to the desire to save his life and, in the post-war period, to the cognitive curiosity realizing itself through travel. The experience of encountering the Soviet occupation zone in the East and the American continent in the second half of the 1960s could not remain without consequences for both the subject and for the places, which his imagination was taking possession of. Changes of place turned the writer into a migrant, influenced his way of interpreting reality, showed the complicated issues of identity transformations and auto-identification entanglements inscribed in the story and autobiographical narrative “about encountering” the Other.