Literatura podróżnicza jako wiwisekcja narodowych tożsamości (Na przykładzie Międzymorza Z. Szczerka)

The main focus of the article is a literary picture of Central European countries asan internally diversified, unique, cultural, anthropological phenomenon polarizedaccording to the cultural antinomies: East-West and Central-Peripheries. Myanalysis is based Z. Szczerek's Międzymorze’s a contemporary memoir of thejourney through Central and Eastern Europe. Modernity and the process of redevelopmentis a point of reference for Szczerek's contemporary view on CentralEurope. His strategy made it evident, that categories like borderland, periphery,diversity, are distinctive for Central European reality indicating its division, borderfluidity and civilizational amorphism.