Kronos. Personal accounting Talk with Jarzębski, Suchanow, Gombrowicz Literature There’s a basic difference between the ‘Diary’ and ‘Kronos’. The ‘Diary’ is something that is created by the author. ‘Kronos’ is something that writes itself
Diary Revisited Talk with Allen J. Kuharski Literature Gombrowicz uses his own idiosyncratic terms like ‘maturity’, ‘immaturity’, ‘superiority’, ‘inferiority’, ‘form’. The index almost killed me. I would say it’s like annotating Nietzsche, with the level of it
The Night Wanderers. Uganda’s Children and the Lord’s Resistance Army BY Agnieszka Le Nart Literature If Jagielski’s aim was to tell the story of a real child soldier in Uganda, he has not accomplished it. The book is rather a tale of the frustration of being a lone ambitious reporter in the heart of Africa. Yet the story he is trying to tell can be just as rewarding
CRAFTSMEN OF CULTURE:A Literary Kapo BY Jan Gondowicz Literature The explosive mixture of hurt ambitions, feelings of superiority and complexes changes the editing process into a farce worthy of Gombrowicz himself. You need to have nerves of steel – on the job of an editor
Uptown Boy BY Łukasz Saturczak Literature An icon? He’s the same guy he always was: deserter, star of the literary world, philosopher. Even the cuss he supposedly muttered upon hearing the verdict of the Nike Award jury might be treated as a part of some convention: Andrzej Stasiuk
NOT IN ENGLISH YET: Manuela Gretkowska, Agent BY Kinga Dunin Literature Manuela Gretkowska’s ‘Agent’ reaffirms the writer’s position as a leader in the category of ‘books to read on a train’
NOT IN ENGLISH YET: Neither Turtlenecks nor Pocket Protectors BY Olga Drenda Media Frąckiewicz’s book is the first such diverse, detailed and dynamic record of Polish comic culture. Yet just as important is what lies outside the ‘diagnostic’ axis of the interviews, in between the lines and as an afterthought
The Reading Lab: Shorthand Literature One upon a time John Wray lead a Twitter workshop in Wrocław. It was a part of The Reading Lab at the European Culture Congress. See the video
Fewer Quickies Talk with Łukasz Orbitowski Literature Who says you can’t sit down on the couch, put your feet up on an ottoman, open up a bottle of wine and sip it along to some music while reading a book? We should not be applying to literature the ways of experiencing culture that we’ve learned from the internet and music videos
NOT IN ENGLISH YET:The Story of a Short Story BY Patrycja Pustkowiak Literature Polish writers treat the short story genre as the spreading of wings before the proper flight into the bright skies of the novel. Yet in 2011 the market was flooded with short story anthologies. Suprisingly, there’s very little sex in it
Some Things Just Can’t Be Put Into Words Talk with Katarzyna Bazarnik, Zenon Fajfer Literature The Reading Lab: Liberate a book – liberature workshops will take place during the European Culture Congress in September in Wrocław. The workshops will be carried out by Zenon Fajfer and Katarzyna Bazarnik
