Dismantling the Shed. A Chronicle

Abstract

It is the festive beginning of spring in a small village and sailing tourism resort in the Masurian Lake District, Northeast Poland: Catholic Easter is followed by Majówka, the first tourism weekend in May. Caught up between the rituals of Easter and those of tourism in the village, you, Zenon, a middle-aged man born there, lose grip on the communities you used to be part of. Your eviction from the world you know and from the future you have been longing for proceeds at inexorable speed, while you rear up against it, rebelling with your body and imagination. The events are chronicled by me, Sophie, an anthropologist on fieldwork and a woman in her mid-twenties, who stays at your parents' house. I become a witness to the dismantling of your shed and of the longings that were stored inside.