Different is the one who is just “sitting in the car”. Between Alexandra Tobor’s prose debut and the new generation writing about Poland in Germany

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the debut novel written by Alexandra Tobor who in the late eighties moved with her parents to Germany. Based on the writher’s genuine experiences the novel Sitzen vier Polen in Auto. Teutonische Abenteuer makes up the artistic transformation of girl’s experiences who first months of her stay in Germany spent in a displacement camp. Thereby the novel forms part of the prose written between Poland and Germany where comes out the theme of a displacement camp as topography peculiar to emigration. Narrative perspective adapted by the writer makes one searching in her depicted world for the thing that distinguishes that novel from achievements of Tobor’s predecessors. One of those distinguishing features is the conception of “differentness” that writer perceives in her close surroundings.