Rashinari In Krytyka, No. 9 (59), 2002, pp. 29–31.

Andrzej Stasiuk’s article “Reshinari” is an essay that, through a depiction of everyday life, develops the author’s reflections on the disappearance of the traditional world of humans and animals in the context of modernization. Using the imagery of the village of Reshinari, the author reconstructs an atmosphere of inseparable coexistence between people and animals, where smells, sounds, movements, and rhythms of daily life shape a holistic world. At the center of the narrative is the observation of the gradual disappearance of this way of being under the pressure of civilizational changes. Through detailed descriptions and personal travel experience, Stasiuk reveals the philosophical idea of continuity and cyclicality of life, in which the human and the animal are not separated. The work demonstrates that the modern world, in its attempt to replace the natural order with technical progress, deprives humans of a sense of organic belonging to the world, and that the preservation of this connection is possible only through a return to its origins.