The aim of this paper is to name the relationship between memory, room and identity with the help of the term „cultural topography”. All of the named categories will be discussed constructivistically, which is in accordance with the latest research on room, memory and identity. The cultural targeted analysis are underlayed by several specific Polish and German novels, which concern oneself which the Shoa from various perspectives. To the regarded texts count those texts by authors of the third generation of Shoa-survivors, the so called later-born, and intellectual witnesses who have no biographical relation to the Holocaust but nevertheless feel ethically in bond of this topic. All for the analysis relevant texts grow out of certain semantics of emptiness, whose literal reconstruction is the main goal of this article.
In the article, the speech goes about the role of translation in the shaping of cultural and historical topography, which structures the life-world of the modern individual. The author applies Bernhard Waldenfels' phenomenological topography as a methodological matrix of his analysis. So, the translation is considered as a metaphor-creating practice aimed at mythologization of reality. Basing on the Klaus Held's conception of ethos, the author suggests introducing the notion of the 'metis ethos' into the scientific discourse. In addition to that, the methodological background of the research also includes post-colonial studies of imperial literature.
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