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Visions of Central Europe present in Andrzej Stasiuk's prose are the creations of melancholic imagination. The subject of the article is a social placement of this imagination: how does it relate to Central European memory? What kind of utopia is on the reverse of this melancholy? What wound does it cover? Stasiuk's melancholy understood as a certain kind of 'Slavonic sorrow' is unquestionably the...