WOJASIŃSKI AND THE UNIVERSAL
If it’s true that one is either an Aristotelian or a Platonist, as a writer, Rafał Wojasiński must be reckoned amongst the latter. All of the stories collected in Olanda constitute a reduction, or perhaps an expansion outwards, to the essential universal. Somewhat paradoxically, Olga Kowalska sees in him
a writer […] for whom time stopped long ago. The contemporary world has evaporated somewhere, washed away, leaving nothing behind but that which is most important in life. The root. The essence of existence. The fountainhead of our humanity.
Wojasiński’s characters are simply named; often, they are indicated only by their first names — Ela, Władek, Baśka, Marek — some of which repeat through the stories, but, are they the same people? These names are such co
