Author's meeting with Remigiusz Ryziński

Author's meeting with Remigiusz Ryziński and the book entitled “Uczeń”

“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 picture 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.

The meeting will be organized as part of the project “A question of culture — meetings, workshops, discussions about literature”. The project was co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund — a state special purpose fund.

Place: Library Pod Kolumnami (MBP main building), 12 Piłsudskiego Street