WOMEN'S RIGHTS ALLEY/“Tobiasz and the Big Leaf” — author's meeting with Inga Iwasiów

TypeLiterature

LocationSala Wielka

Hour

18

Datum 27.10.2026

Price

7 PLN

LITERARY MEETING

The novel “Tobias

and a big leaf” by Ingi Iwasiów was published in September this year in the publishing house

Filters.

It is a penetrating, sensual novel, full of emotions, also

of the difficult and ambivalent ones that are described

They are melancholy, but also humorous.

We meet the heroine at the moment when she reaches the age of

Retirement. He has enough of universities, students and colleagues, definitely enough

what the academy has become as a result of successive reforms.

At the end of his career, he simulates a research project using the latest

technology. The thread of professional life is laid out in a biting satire

to the university, its rituals, bureaucracy and ideological emptiness.

The heroine most often

resides in the realm between wakefulness and sleep, the consciousness of the mind

and his wanderings. In this particular state, it responds to an anons,

As a result, Tobias the rabbit arrives at her house, which literally fills

emptiness. The new inhabitant must be fed, protected and, above all, known

and understand. Tobias restores the heroine's sense of touch and sobriety,

at the same time allowing it to swing in the clouds. Rabbits are after all

ancient animals that knew dinosaurs, Alice and the Surrealists (description

publishers).

hosted by: Agnieszka Gajewska

Duration: 90 min/age: 18+

INGA IWASIÓW — novelist, critic

literary, professor of literary studies, publicist, social activist. Author of more than a dozen scientific, essay and literary books. Among other excellent

novels “Bambino”, “To the Sun”, “Briefly”, “In the Air”, “Fifty”, “Chronicles

resistance and love”, “Late Life”. An important trend

The scientific and literary interests of the writer is autobiography, his

She gave the most complete expression in the book “He died to me. Mourning notebook.” her

Social media activity has resulted

books “Blogotony” and “View from the window on a business trip”.

She published important critical-literary books: “Revinitykations. woman

reading today”, “Gender for the intermediate”, “Defrosting.

Literature in Need”, “Boundaries. The Politics of Prose and Discourse

Women since 1989.” Her columns in which she comments on the current

events, can currently be read in “Large Format”. Jurorka Poznańska

Literary Award. Lives in Szczecin, works at the University

Szczecinski.

AGNIESZKA GAJEWSKA — works

at the Institute of Polish Philology, UAM, she is a professor of literary studies.

Author of the books “Stanisław Lem. Driven out of the High Castle. Biography”,

which won the Gdynia Literary Award in 2022 in the essay category, as well as

“Doom and stars. The past in the prose of Stanisław Lem”. In 2024

published in her study a selection of letters between Lem and Ursula K. Le Guin “I say that

My glory comes from my friends. Letters 1972-1984”. Author of the book “Motto: Feminism”. Scientific editor

anthology of translations “Vystical Theories” and co-editor (together

with Maciej Michalski) of the monograph “Culture of virginity” (2020). Directs

Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Gender and Cultural Identity of the UAM.