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In the work of Georges Perec, the novel W or the Memory of Childhood (1975) is an attempt, halfway between autobiography and detective novel, to reveal the greatest enigma of the existence of the writer, namely the tragic fate of his mother who was deported to Auschwitz from where she would never return. In order …

The paper shows the emergence and development of the shopping center with a focus on the social aspects of this consumer form. The first fully equipped indoor shopping mall was built in the middle of the last century in the United States, as a solution for the consumer and social needs of the population of …

There is a noticeable spatialisation of time present in the visionary texts dealing with the concept of the otherworld. Past, present and future are allocated and closely related. In medieval prose, space and time can be either strictly determined or completely ignored and unimportant. Only the happening itself is important, since it contains the eternal …