Der magisch-realistische Erinnerungsraum der „Wiedergewonnenen Gebiete“ in der Prosa von Maria Sidorska-Ryczkowska

Summary This article focuses on the literary construction of the ‘Recovered Territories’ on the basis of the novel Station on the East and West (2004) and the compilation of short stories Keys to the River (2013) written by Maria Sidorska-Ryczkowska. The setting within the poetics of the magical realism leads as the main characteristic of the two chosen texts. The literary creation of the small town on the Polish-German border, which is portrayed both as the microcosmic piece of a bigger entity and as the unique tablet inscribed by the history of the Polish and German nations, is the base of both texts. The intertwined relationship between the magical realism as the literary strategy and the categories of memory and remembering is a significant theme presented in the texts. The aforementioned theme transports the portrayal of the small town depicted by Sidorska-Ryczkowska into the memory space that combines realistic and magical features.