Description:
This article presents the connections between geography and literature leaning on the material of texts written in the 20th century by authors from many different countries. Poems from the body of work by Guillaume Apollinaire, C´esar Valejo, Jorge Luis Borges, Natałka Biłocerkiweć, Antoni Pawlak and their common main theme “death in Paris” are treated as examples of unique and significant evidence of the human experience of space. The interpretations of those literary creations may help us to understand the processes of locating a single existence. This is understood as a path that leads to self-awareness.