Tomasz Derlatka, About the Possible Interpretations of the Siwa Motif in Jurij Koch's Wišnina.

The author of the article undertakes the interpretation of one of the few feature motifs in the work by J. Koch, Wišnina, that is a figurine of Pre-Slavic goddess – Siwa (Żywia). The figurine is owned by the protagonist of the work, the Sorbian girl – Ena. She seems to be an unofficial guardian of the statuette. Because of her husband, the German – Sieghart, Siwa is being put in the Parisian antique shop. The Ena's attempts of getting the figurine back end up in nothing.

According to the author, the Siwa's motif can be interpreted in two ways: through the theory of the subject (who put the figurine in the antique shop?) which may be another illustration of the German – Sorbian antagonism, and through the theory of 'semantic gesture' (what happened?). The author regards the second theory as the proper one. He points out that Koch, as in his previous works (like Triglaw and Nawrót sonow), shows an interesting problem of the Sorbian minority's abandoning the idea of the Slavic reciprocity.