IN POLAND, SO NOWHERE – WALDEMAR BAWOŁEK
“To co obok” is a social panorama of contemporary Poland. In agreement with the title (“that, which is beside” – trans.), Waldemar Bawołek shows a spectrum of our reality, one filled with the fate of those who are struggling to stay on the level of the social minimum, living in the world of ostensible possibilities. The author writes about and for those who wonder about the essence of work, commitment, and love; about their disappointments, about the antinomies of consciousness, and the opposites upon which human existence is based. Here, realism trembles anxiously between onirism and an intellectual game, it explodes with vulgarities and reaches the boundaries of the purest absurdity, which can be seen, say, in the fate of the protagonists.
Waldemar Bawołek | Writer of prose. Winner of the “Nowy Nurt” and the Kurpisz Publishing House Competition, as well as of the Zielona Sowa Publishing House National Competition, thrice awarded the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship. Has published the following books: “Delectatio morosa” (1996), “Raz dokoła” (2005), “Humoreska” (2012), and “To co obok” (2014, nominated for the Gdynia Literary Prize).