This article proposes that rather than a concern with safeguarding a national identity, Georgi Gospodinov’s poetry collection There, where we are not (2016) exposes the relationship of self and world as coextensive and mutually constitutive. His poems undertake the remaking of the world as they reconfigure the self with language at the heart of this undertaking—words and meanings in flux, at play in bringing forth selves through a plurality of multitemporal, decentered worlds. Heeding Pheng Cheah’s critique that the “world” in world literature discourse has received little attention, I take up Jean-Luc Nancy’s notion of the “singular plural” to illuminate and further the argument that Gospodinov’s collection worlds by juggling a multiplicity of specific geographic locations and attending to the plural singularity of a moment, of an event or rather of a non-event. In a section titled, The Sundays of the world, “there where we are not” becomes a plurality of worlds, singular and shared, uninhabited and teeming with life, worlds observed and observing, worlds that have familiar names—Berlin, Vienna, Ljubljana, Paris, Rome, Kraków, Sofia—and yet each makes up “a world crammed full of absences.” Ultimately, the collection neither recedes into the national nor dissipates into the global but seeks out a path in-between through which to world laterally, anew.

本文提出，格奥尔基·戈斯波迪诺夫 (Georgi Gospodinov) 的诗集《我们不在的地方》( There, where we are not , 2016) 并不关心维护民族身份，而是揭示了自我与世界的关系是共同延伸和相互构成的。他的诗歌承担着重塑世界的重任，因为它们以语言重新配置自我，这是这项事业的核心——不断变化的词语和意义，在通过多个多时相、去中心化的世界中展现自我的过程中发挥作用。注意到 Pheng Cheah 批评世界文学话语中的“世界”很少受到关注，我采用 Jean-Luc Nancy 的“单复数”概念来阐明和进一步论​​证 Gospodinov 的收藏 世界 通过兼顾特定地理位置的多样性并关注一个时刻、一个事件或一个 非事件的多重奇异性。在标题为 “世界的星期日”的部分中，“我们不在的地方”变成了多个世界，单一的和共享的，无人居住的和充满生命的，观察和观察的世界，有熟悉名字的世界——柏林、维也纳、卢布尔雅那、巴黎、罗马、克拉科夫、索非亚——但每一个都构成了“一个充满缺席的世界”。最终，该系列既没有退​​回到国家，也没有消散到全球，而是在两者之间寻找一条新的横向世界的道路。