Abstract This article analyses Andrzej Stasiuk’s 2004 travelogue On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe as a work that questions the existing narratives about the region commonly referred to as ‘Central Europe’. The main argument is that by bringing forward an original interpretation of ruins and decay — theorized here as ‘heterotopias of decay’ — Stasiuk’s poetics of villages and small towns from forgotten corners of Europe invites an interrogation of the notion of Central Europe itself. The narrative’s dismissal of the very term ‘Central Europe’, because it disregards the mundane qualities of the everyday, is presented as an original contribution to the debates about this region.

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中欧腐朽的异托邦：安杰伊·斯塔修克在通往巴巴达格的路上的真实诗学

摘要 本文分析了 Andrzej Stasiuk 2004 年的游记 On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe 作为对通常被称为“中欧”地区的现有叙述提出质疑的作品。主要论点是，通过提出对废墟和腐烂的原始解释——这里被理论为“腐烂的异托邦”——斯塔修克关于来自欧洲被遗忘角落的村庄和小镇的诗学引发了对中欧本身概念的质疑。叙述对“中欧”这个词的排斥，因为它无视日常生活的平凡品质，被呈现为对该地区辩论的原创贡献。