Zmierzch i noc, czyli o czasoprzestrzennym imaginarium w prozie Włodzimierza Odojewskiego

This article presents the problem of space-time constitution analysing realisation of the Katyń theme in narrative prose of the author of Dusk of the world in which dusk and night gain a clearly special consideration. The basis for consideration is a distinction between two meanings of the symbol of Hegelian owl: as noctua is a bird of night and darkness, while as nycticorax is the one that sees clearly at night. These two meanings organise the way of representing the world in this prose which is closer to the first or the second meaning of the symbol. Dusk and night gain a triple interpretation: the existential one, the epistemic one, and the moral one. The specificity of Odojewski’s historiographical prose consists in the primacy of imagination, textual creation, and realism of the narrative form.