„Małe miasteczka robią nas na szaro”. Małomiejskość w twórczości Małgorzaty Stachowiak

This article deals with provinciality in the Lubusz poet’s writing. It is composed of two integrally parts. The first section concerns the category of provincial space – its nature and problems connected with the feeling of routine and lack of perspectives. Stachowiak has a genius for discovering the slits in existence, which is her way to experience an everyday epiphany. The following section attempts to describe provincial people in every age bracket. The article shows that the daily life closed in tight space depends on the rule of a vicious circle, which leads, for example, to permanent pathology. An irony is most often used by Stachowiak to explain provincial paradoxes.