Locus mirahilis et horrendus. The image of supermarket in Polish prose after 1989

Abstract

The article deals with the motif of supermarket and its customers in Polish contemporary prose. The image of supermarket is usually created in poetics of grotesque. It's presented as simulacrum. The interested problem evoked by prose is consciousness of customers; it is described by the fact of buying. “I’m doing shopping so I am” can be a new formula of human condition.