Ландшафт памяти : об «Abecadło» Чеслава Милоша

Abstract

The aim of this article is to draw the possibilities of space representation in Czesław Miłosz’s “ABC” written in the form of encyclopedic dictionary. We define the concept of “space” more in the discursive, rather than actually philosophical sense: as global environment of human existence, include the world of things, culture and memory. The subject of the study – space of individual memory – expands the boundaries of spatial semiotics. The memory is represented as a system of loci different ontological nature: cities and countries, languages, cultural texts, concepts. The structure of the mental space is described as an associative network of loci, updated in the form of texts. Closing the last page of the “ABC”, one comes to the conclusion that person lives in the space of language, culture, memory which are the true reality. The world exists, as we translate it into the signs and texts.