Geologie, genealogie, tryb warunkowy złożony. Eduardo Halfon w Łodzi

This paper examines Eduardo Halfon’s Oh gueto mi amor as a postmemorial narrative situated within a transnational peripheral memory framework. The proposed analysis employs a tripartite interpretive model: geology (affective cartography of space), genealogy (familial trauma entanglement), and the conditional mood (identity articulated in a hypothetical mode). Using a hermeneutic and close reading approach, the study draws on theoretical concepts by Marianne Hirsch (postmemory), Homi Bhabha (Third Space) and Michael Rothberg (multidirectional memory, implicated subject). The article argues that the narrator’s journey to Łódź functions as a performative reconstruction of identity suspended between familial genealogy and the affective memory of the Holocaust.