The premiere of the book “Uczeń” and the author's meeting with Remigiusz Ryziński

Wednesday | 28.10.2026 | 18:00

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Admission is free

Together with Wydawnictwo Literackie we invite you on Wednesday, October 28, at 18:00 to an author's meeting with Remigiusz Ryziński around his book “Uczeń”! The meeting will be moderated by Sylwia Chutnik.

During the meeting there will be an opportunity to purchase a book.

About “The Disciple”: “My father never said he loved me.”

Novel debut of the author nominated for the Nike Literary Award for his reportage Foucault in Warsaw. A poignant tale of shame and fear.

Mother, daughter and son run away from home. With an ax in hand, their father follows them. “I will kill!” He screams in a hateful voice.

An adult son, years later, finds documents in the archive that reveal a painful secret. What will happen in the confrontation of domestic truth and facts? What is the value of the stigma that becomes destiny and at the same time a way of life?

Remigiusz Ryziński looks at the collision of paternal brutality with boyish sensitivity. He speaks of his mother with tenderness and of his sister with admiration — the “woman's house” is his refuge. To be loved by a father is a painful need.

The Apprentice is a moving image of loneliness in the midst of a hostile world. The author reveals the mechanisms of action of prejudice and exclusion. It precisely exposes family and national traumas. It transforms personal history into a universal study of the need for love.

“Yes, we have Polish Didier Eribon, he is Remigiusz Ryziński. But this is not about comparisons, but self-fiction, writing out your own family history and life choices that were dictated by it. Remek's book is an example of how to combine the immense pain, reflection and strength that one carries against the world. The sincerity of the author is a gift that we should receive with focus and gratitude.”

Sylwia Chutnik

“Excellent prose. A book about our mothers, fathers and ourselves. A poignant one. We have to face it.”

Wojciech Tochman