An Escape from Conrad’s Hell. Meeting with Michał Komar

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A Queer Reading Lesson with Maja Heban

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Community as a Challenge. Meeting with Roberto Esposito

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18:30

The Rights of all Beings. Meeting with Eva Meijer

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20:00

About People that No One Cares About. Meeting with Óscar Martínez

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A Queer Reading Lesson with Joanna Ostrowska

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17:00

What is the Community Afraid of? Meeting with Verena Kessler

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18:30

Silesianness Wanted Immediately Meeting with Zbigniew Rokita

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Portraits of New Worlds. Meeting with Alfian Sa’at

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A Queer Reading Lesson with Remigiusz Ryziński

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An Unpalatable Family. Meeting with Shalom Auslander

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18:30

Relations, Relationships, Dependencies. Meeting with Leïla Slimani

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20:00

Eviction. Discussion with the participation of Sylwia Chutnik, Michał Kmiecik, Michał Otłowski and Jakub Żulczyk

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A Queer Reading Lesson with Błażej Warkocki

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17:00

Games Played by Two A Discussion on Unica Zürn with Friederike Beck and Sabine Scholl

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18:30

Remembering. Meeting with Tanya Malyarchuk

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When Will the 20th Century End? Meeting with Artur Domosławski

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21:30

Zen of the Peszeks. Meeting with Maria and Jan Peszek

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12:00

A Queer Reading Lesson with Aldona Kobus

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17:00

Beyond Drama and Towards Prose. A Discussion with Marta Sokołowska, Ishbel Szatrawska and Szczepan Twardoch

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Ukraine, or the West. Meeting with Mykola Riabchuk

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With a Story into the Darkness. Meeting with Mariana Enriquez

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Ancient Communities. Meeting with Ewa Klekot and Andrzej Muszyński

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15:00

The Prix Goncourt. Meeting with Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

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16:30

Reading Ukraine. Natalka Bilotserkivets and her guests: Urszula Honek, Ryszard Krynicki, Joanna Oparek, Michał Sobol

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18:30

A Devil, a Kratt, a Trupibut and Others. Meeting with Andrus Kivirähk

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20:00

An Exit from the Dream House. Meeting with Carmen Maria Machado

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14:00

Football and Anti-Semitism. A Discussion with Michał Okoński and Rafał Rosół

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15:30

About Poland from Outside of Poland. A Discussion with Natasza Goerke, Weronika Gogola and Grażyna Plebanek

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17:00

An Escape from Conrad’s Hell. Meeting with Michał Komar

Host: Michał Olszewski

Michał Komar began writing the book Piekło Conrada (Conrad’s Hell)in 1968. It was published ten years later and then reissued twice (1988 and 2017). The hell contained in the title is a vision of the world from which Conrad tears off the top layer to reveal the throbbing viscera of a modern Leviathan. The most moving and thoroughly topical is the passage about an empire that forces its subjects to faithfully serve its goals by adhering to the “values” it propagates. The inverted commas are necessary because, as Komar writes, honour is not honour here, loyalty is loyalty to evil, freedom is consent to conscious slavery. Millions believe in them and are guided by them in their everyday lives. Hell according to Conrad is not total negativity, it is not nihilism – it is rationality turned upside down. Is it possible to break free from its trap?

30 October, at 17:00

Michał Komar

Michał Olszewski

18:30

The Hell of Two People Is Hotter. Meeting with Ayfer Tunç

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20:30

Conrad Award Gala

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accompanying eventsUnica Zürn. A Knife in the Wound

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accompanying eventsTranslation as a Form of an Anagram A Discussion with Małgorzata Łukasiewicz and Natalia Kruszyna

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film seriesBaby Broker / Broker

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film seriesGodland

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book industriesThe Author in the Digital World

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film seriesTini zabutykh predkiv/ Cienie zapomnianych przodków

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book industriesWhy Do We Need Compulsory Reading?

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book industriesWhat Will the Book Market Be Like in 10 Years’ Time? The Publishers’ Perspective

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book industriesClassics Known and Discovered: Retranslations and New Translations

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film seriesLes Jeux à deux

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book industriesConnecting Emerging Literary Artists. Speed Dating: Publishers and Translators

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book industriesThe Right to Facts

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Connecting Emerging Literary Artists 2018–2023 (CELA)Connecting Emerging Literary Artists. New Voices from Europe, or a Literary Soiree at the Potocki Palace & Open Mic

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film seriesNovember

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11:00

children and youthWolf Tracks A Meeting and Workshop with Daniel Mizieliński and Michał Figura

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book industriesHow to Invite an Author?

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book industriesBookshops: How to Save Oneself?