Abstract

The main purpose of this article is to portray the complex mechanism of taming the strange space of Lower Silesia in Zyta Oryszyn’s polyphonic novel Saving Atlantis. The central issue under discussion is the analysis of the multifaceted categories of familiarity and strangeness in the literary representation of space created by the author. Another important point considered is the answer to the question whether, and to what extent, the acceptance of the new reality and identification with the new homeland are possible. Finally, the process of searching or reconstructing one’s own identity is illustrated as situated between a tragedy and a new beginning, between the Polish and the German identities, between familiarity and strangeness.

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