Как искать структуру в распаде? Анализ художественного пространства в произведениях Влодзимежа Одоевского

In this consideration of artistic space in the work of Włodzimierz Odojewski, the author aims not only to discuss one particular Polish writer, but also to demonstrate new practical possibilities of “spatial semiotics” in analysing modern literature, using conceptions derived from members of the Tartu-Moscow Group (Iu. Lotman, B. Uspenskii, V. Toporov). Principles relating to the construction of the semiosphere, of which artistic space in the literary work is regarded as a model, are transferred to the ground of poetics. This approach opens up new interpretive possibilities of importance in investigating works like those of Odojewski, characterised by discontinuity of spatial topoi and a world structure incapable of being ordered.