AVENUE OF THE MERITORIOUS

After many years of creative work, immersion in the world of words, ideas, sublime thoughts, after years of living in a literary environment, the writer realizes that when she dies, her husband will have nothing to bury her for...
A story about a man in relation to himself, to his relatives and strangers, to an official, a clerk, a mother, a husband. But also the story of those others towards the poet. All within the framework of an unusual situation-trial, which the heroine invents out of extreme helplessness and to which she cruelly exposes herself.
A drama by one of the most interesting contemporary poets, Jarosław Mikołajewski, written with perverse, mocking despair, or — whichever you prefer — desperate irony with a fair amount of tenderness and even poetry. The life reckoning of an artist? Or the reckoning of anyone who has been cultivating dreams all their lives, and in the finale has to collide with a hard existence?
“Please,” says Jarosław Mikołajewski, “do not look for my own experiences in this story. I have painted the heroine from different characters, including myself, but, as they say, the resemblance to the real world is illusory.