Category: Literatura

[:en] Theatre of Invisible Children is a story for young people by Marcin Szczygielski, published by Latarnik Publishing Institute in 2016. Life is not a theatre, let’s not kid ourselves. Especially when you’re a child, living in an orphanage, and a Great History is sweeping over your head. The book’s narrator, eleven-year-old Michał, is a…

[:en] The book by Katarzyna Kotowska, Hedgehog, is a children’s book. Published by Wydawnictwo Egmont in 2003. One of the most beautiful human skills is fairy-tale writing. Fairy tales have many different functions in our lives, they provide us not only with entertainment, but above all, they allow us to better understand the world around…

[:en] Bitter, bitter is the latest book of Polish author, Joanna Bator. Published by Wydawnictwo Znak in 2020. In her latest novel, Joanna Bator describes the fates of four related women from successive generations. The protagonists are linked not only by kinship but also by love, or more precisely by the lack of it. Analysing…

[:en] What do feelings do is a book by Tina Oziewicz with illustrations by Aleksandra Zając. Published by Wydawnictwo Dwie Siostry in 2020. Well, what do feelings do? In the book by Tina Oziewicz and Aleksandra Zając, feelings are personified in the form of charming hairy trolls. Using minimal means of expression, the author has…

[:en] The legend of suicide is David Vann’s debut book. Originally published in English in 2009. In six short stories, the author confronts the subject of his father’s suicidal death. By giving his writing therapeutic qualities, David Vann tries to recreate his complicated relationship with his father. He looks for the reasons for his decision…

[:en] Olga Tokarczuk – Bizarre Tales was published by Wydawnictwo Literackie in 2018. “Bizarre tales” are not only strange and unusual, but above all, they create an atmosphere of anxiety and tension. Tokarczuk invites the reader to a world in which everything is interconnected and interdependent. Where one element results directly from another and leads…

[:en] The book, written under the pseudonym Marcel A. Marcel, is a story of loneliness accompanied by ORO, an imaginary companion. Published by Marginesy publishing house in 2012. The authors Olga Sawicka and Danuta Łukasińska, are behind Marcel A. Marcel. They illustrate a funny but very serious description of what it is like to be…

[:en] The legend of the house on Mączna Street is written by Grzegorz Dowlasz, published by Iskry  in 1965. Grzegorz writes the book as a kind of diary of building the house on Mączna Street . It can be said to have been the “blueprint” of Family styled Foster Homes. The author writes of the…