Emigracje wyobrażone : podmiot nomadyczny w "Pisma do Gaustin" Georgiego Gospodinowa

Imagined emigrations : a nomadic subject in "Писма до Гаустин" by Georgi Gospodinov

This article is an attempt to read the cycle Писма и фотографии (Letters and photographs) of bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov (part of Писма до Гаустин) as the overall project, whose main idea is to „recover” the travel, to give it a new unusual dimension, by „losing way” in spaces designated by various sites of the foreign countries. Nomad, in opposite to Bauman’s tourist or vagabond, is a traveler, for whom moving is not a goal in itself. Nomad is not homeless. He identifi es with the place in which he resides, he explore it and leaves it (but not abandon). He has specifi c kind of respect for the land on which he settled (but not possessed). The metaphor of the nomad means free crossing of the broadly defi ned boundaries and a certain periodicity, originally associated with the cycle of nature and the seasons. The analyze of Gospodinov’s Писма и фотографии shows that subject in Писма до Гаустин can be recognized as a nomadic.