This article provides an exploration of intertextuality in Tadeusz Rożewicz’s motif of Prague and in the creation of his characters – the inhabitants of the city. It seems that in his works – Zamknięcie (Closure), Szachownica (Chessboard), Wigilia w obcym mieście (Christmas Eve in a Foreign City) and Strahovski Kamieniołom (Strahovski Quarry) – the Polish poet refers to the characters and the city of Prague that appear in the fictional works of Franz Kafka (The Trial and Description of a Struggle) as well as in his diaries and private correspondence (Diary 1910–1923, letters). The question that I discuss is the following: How do Franz Kafka’s characters and his image of Prague correspond to the Prague and the characters of Różewicz’s works?
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