Dr. Józef Zaprucki Karkonosze State Higher School in Jelenia Góra joezap@op.pl The ecosemiotic paradigm for nature and culture can be quite easily pursued in many novels of Silesian writers which were written before the WWII depicting vividly temporality and spatiality of Silesia, the former German province, which is today one of the Polish Western Voivodships. This paper aims at elaborating a conceptual-methodological template for analyzing the processes occurring within the intercultural discourse between the Silesian author from the German past, Fedor Sommer, and his contemporary receivers on the basis of a selected novel The Iron Collar. The notion of the textual chronotope as a spatiotemporal frame of literary work, being borrowed from Mikhail Bakhtin, provides the image of a fictitious world beyond words which creates a basis for an interaction between historical encodings and contemporary decodings of artistically expressed means and forms of communication. This interaction might be ultimately interpreted in light of the so-called “micro-reception” of literary heritage, bearing in mind that some books of the former German Silesian writings are usually red by a very small group of Polish Silesian readers. Nevertheless, they can largely contribute to an “intercultural talk” which also entails the understanding of the sources of civilizational clashes occurring between communities depicted in a given novel. KEY-WORDS: chronotope, discourse, ecosemiotics, interculturality, literature