"Zaczyna się od domu" : o budowaniu pamięci miejsca w powieściach Olgi Tokarczuk ("Dom dzienny, dom nocny") i Ewy Kujawskiej ("Dom Małgorzaty")

The aim of this article is to present the functioning of a house in two selected novels: House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk and Małgorzata's House by Ewa Kujawska. The house (or rather home), being a place that is closest to man, is related here with a category of memories: here the building of memory starts as well as the identity and the relation between man and place. Both novels show, that building of this relation is a difficult task, especially when it concerns space, which connects to previous inhabitants. The authors lead their stories about a house, or rather houses that were built on lands that, due to historic turmoil, witnessed exchanges of populations and therefore need acknowledgement and domestication, which - relating to the title - starts with a home.