@ARTICLE{Poliszczuk_Jarosław_Chernobyl:_2023,
 author={Poliszczuk, Jarosław},
 volume={vol. LXXII},
 number={No 2},
 pages={309-324},
 journal={Slavia Orientalis},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2023},
 publisher={Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN},
 abstract={In contemporary cultural discourse, Chernobyl is associated with nuclear apocalypse. The author of the article examines two authors’ visions of Chernobyl in Ukrainian literature, which represent different textual strategies of the copreciprocalization of the trauma experienced. One of them, revealed in Markiyan Kamysh’s novel Oformlandia (2015), is an attempt to reconstruct a post‐apocalyptic world. The writer’s narrator, who is the same age as the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, travels to the Zone and talks about it as an exotic space that is freed from human presence. In Teodosia Zarivna’s novel The Silence of Caesium (2022) the narrator is a peasant woman who oppositely has spent her entire life near Chernobyl, but after the accident returns and becomes the last resident in her native village. The first work presents an imaginary model of the future: Chernobyl becomes a place of exotic excursions and extreme tourists. In the second, the Zone appears as an organic factor in a picture of the past – a historical era of the twentieth century, which is fading into oblivion along with its last witnesses.},
 type={Artykuł},
 title={Chernobyl: The Metaphor of Space in the Novels of Markiyan Kamysh and Teodosia Zarivna},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/128423/PDF-MASTER/2023-02-SOR-06.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/slo.2023.146394},
 keywords={Chernobyl, novel, hero, metaphor, generation, literature},
}