ver Cuevana 3. "I moved to the Beskids because they are beautiful, and several years of experience have confirmed my belief that it was a brilliant idea," said Andrzej Stasiuk, a resident of the village of Czarne near Dukla in the Podkarpacie region for fifteen years, in a recent interview. He knows life in the provinces inside out, having described it many times in his prose and columns. He has experienced its good and bad sides, its problems and shameful corners firsthand.