On the Way of Transposing Space in Eugeniusz Małaczewski's Novel "Horse on the Hill"

Abstract

The article describes the method of making the space of the Eastern Borderlands present in Eugeniusz Małaczewski's novel Horse on the Hill, devoted to the events of the Polish-Soviet War. The analysis of the work was made in the perspective of the topographical turn and in the context of the literature of the so-called Galician myth. Research attention was focused on the literary way of transposing the space of a noble court with its natural surroundings, and at the same time on the meaning of the motif of silence, which the writer used to ethically characterize the transposed space. Its consequence was the "spatialization" of the spiritual transformation of the hero of the novella. Consequently, it leads to the conviction that the spiritual format of man gives value to the space in which he lives, establishes its dimension and allows us to understand it.