Abstract
The article analyzes the content and structure of space models built in the texts of the main representatives of the discourse on Central Europe in the 1980s – Milan Kundera, Czesław Miłosz and Danilo Kiš. It is modeled on two axes – geographical (primarily in relation to the West and Russia) and temporal (Central Europe as a fact of the past rather than the present). The subject of space is recognized as an intellectual, often an emigrant and a dissident, a bearer of culture and traumatic experience of Central Europe. Its main attributes are the indefinability of borders, the loss of multiculturalism and multilingualism, distrust of history, and cultural centrism. Despite the similarity of the communicative situation and the codes used, the concepts of each writer have a number of key differences related to their national and cultural affiliation.