On February 24, 2022, we embarked on a war journey into the unknown, witnessing the war in Ukraine. Our contact with the war is mediated (mainly by the media), yet painful and saturated with extreme emotions. This article is an autoethnographic description of the experiences of this journey of three academics from Poland, a frontline country. The metaphor of the road is carried out by evocative autoethnography in terms of its symbolism of personal journey of each of us; nevertheless, it also unifies our experiences of war into one tender narrative. Embedded in the essence of our autoethnographic narrative of the war is a constant openness to new circumstances, the natural dynamics of action at the front and in the frontier country, and the constant search for and discovery of one’s own narrative identity. Each part of this path traveled is inscribed in the baggage of personal experience, a narrative of life in a frontier country, unification by the situation of witnessing the war, and the desire to express our resistance to it. It became a form of mental resistance, analysis, empathy, and concern which were our methods of struggle and a way of taking responsibility for the reality we witness. In the description, we used the “tender narrative” proposed in the texts of Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk.

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温柔见证人的战争故事：三种声音的路上故事

2022年2月24日，我们踏上了未知的战争之旅，见证了乌克兰战争。我们与战争的接触是通过媒介（主要是通过媒体）进行的，但却是痛苦的，并且充满了极端的情绪。本文是对来自前线国家波兰的三位学者这段旅程经历的自民族志描述。道路的隐喻是通过令人回味的自我民族志来实现的，它象征着我们每个人的个人旅程；尽管如此，它也将我们的战争经历统一到一个温柔的叙述中。我们对战争的自我民族志叙事的本质是对新环境的持续开放，前线和边疆国家行动的自然动力，以及对自己叙事身份的不断探索和发现。这条道路的每一部分都铭刻在个人经历的包袱中，对边疆国家生活的叙述，通过目睹战争的情况而实现的统一，以及表达我们对战争的抵抗的愿望。它成为一种精神抵抗、分析、同理心和关注的形式，这是我们的斗争方法，也是我们对所目睹的现实负责的一种方式。在描述中，我们采用了诺贝尔文学奖获得者奥尔加·托卡尔丘克文本中提出的“温柔叙事”。