Militaryzacja natury w powieści Siergieja Liebiediewa Ludzie sierpnia

This is a critical analysis of the war discourse in a two books, a volume of philoso-phical essays and a a work of fiction. They are Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (2009) by Judith Butler and People of August (2016), a novel by the contemporary Russian writer Sergei Lebedev. Both authors see war not as an discrete event on a timeline, but as a network of events that accumulate in time. This is especially evident in Lebediev's palimpsest of Russia's 20th-century history. The article examines closely the spatial ele-ments of the novel as well as its take on the relationship between human history (Russian totalitarianism) and nature.