Oczekiwanie na powrót przeszłości. Szkic na podstawie wybranych opowiadań Adolfa Rudnickiego

Among Adolf Rudnicki’s stories there is a group of texts dedicated to the phenomenon of the waiting – not for the future, but for the past. The time of waiting seems to be full of es-sence in Rudnicki’s texts. It is not empty and boring, it is not a pause between events but it is an important event itself. Charactres (and the narrator sometimes) live in a state of waiting thanks to their memory that brings back past moments, pictures and feelings. Moreover – the memory modifies them. Rudnicki observes and analyses the backward journeys and interprets their senses: yearn-ing for the childhood and youth (Mały Grün, Wiosenny śnieg), creating the alternative past (Narzeczony Beaty), the possibility of the mystical new beginning of the human history (Morze).