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This analysis of Andrzej Stasiuk’s novel Jadąc do Babadag is undertaken from a narratological, genological and philosophy-of-history standpoint. It attempts at describing the ope-rations carried out by the writer on the story he has authored. Narration is recognized as being enchanted and extrapolated from the figure of a photograph which forms a fetish but also, an inspiration for the space being described and for how time is reflected upon. As the engine of the narrative and actual reason for taking a trip, inspiration of a narrative method, the way of coding the reality and a figure which can best describe a human’s existence in time and space – according to Stasiuks’s concept – photography shows a tragic tear between the need to record things and death, between an uncertain prospect of infiniteness and mortality.