Abstract
The article discusses the work of a renowned central European author of Polish- French origin, rooted in the eastern Carpathian region (Huculia), in the context of Heidegger's phenomenology of space and Gaston Bachelard's poetics. It also applies Jungian psychoanalysis (explored by the French "philosopher of dream") in spatial terms (poetics of house).
The concept of place and landscape created by Vincenz (recognized by the author of the article as a reference to Heidegger's phenomenology of space), seems to be an attempt to overcome the existential pessimism of the German philosopher. The cosmos created by Vincenz provides the picture of a Whole that is a place in which the idea of total Redemption (apocatastasis) is being realized with an active participation of a human in his romantic act of "opening the Universe" or domestication of the world.
The rich theoretical and philosophical context (discovered and revealed by the author of the article) of Vincenz's tetralogy (On the High Uplands. Sagas, Songs, Tales and Legends of the Carpathians) makes it possible to recognize in it a unique piece of art with its own dynamics and still open interpretative potential, where regionalism rises to the position of universal values.