Meeting with Inga Iwasy about the book “Tobias and the Big Leaf”

23 October 2026, Friday, 18.00, 15 Podwale Street; free admission

“” is a penetrating, sensual novel, full of emotions, including those not easy and ambivalent, which are described with melancholy, but also with humor. We get to know the heroine at the moment when she reaches retirement age. He is fed up with universities, students and colleagues, definitely fed up with 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 technologies. The thread of professional life is laid out in a biting satire on the university, its rituals, bureaucracy and ideological emptiness.

The heroine is most often in the sphere between waking and sleeping, the consciousness of the mind and its wandering. In this special state, she responds to an announcement, as a result of which the rabbit Tobias arrives at her house, who literally fills the void. The new inhabitant must be fed, protected and, above all, known and understood. Tobias restores the heroine's sense of touch and sobriety, while allowing her to rock in the clouds. Rabbits are, after all, ancient animals that knew dinosaurs, Alice and the Surrealists.

ó. Author of books: “Bambino” (the final of the Nike Literary Award), “To the Sun”, “For a short time”, “In the air”, “Fifty years”, “Chronicles of resistance and love” (Jantar Literary Award), “Late life” (final of the Gdynia Literary Award), “Blogotony”, “View from the window on a business trip”, “He died to me. Notatnik Żałoby” (final of the Warsaw Literary Prize). Playwright, columnist (currently associated with the “Big Format”). She published many scientific works, as well as precursor books of critical literature: “Revindications. Woman reading today”, “Gender for the intermediate”, “Defrosting. Literature in Need.” He lives and works in Szczecin.

The meeting with the author will be led by.



Books by Inga Iwasiów will be available in the House of Letters at the bookstore stand

COMFORT OF PARTICIPATION:

Thresholds have been lifted throughout the House of Letters with people in wheelchairs in mind. Our place was also clothed. We also have a professional sound system, air conditioning, a public toilet, a cloakroom and several dozen comfortable armchairs. Dom Liter is also a pet-friendly place.

If you need a sign language interpreter or a guardian for a person with special needs during the event, we encourage you to contact the Equality and Social Innovation Section of the Splot Miejski Centrum Kultury w Bydgoszcz: tel. 52 32 55 545, e-mail: splot@mck-bydgoszcz.pl.

COMFORT OF PARTICIPATION:

If you need a sign language interpreter or a guardian for a person with special needs during the event, we encourage you to contact the Equality and Social Innovation Section of the Splot Miejski Centrum Kultury w Bydgoszcz: tel. 52 32 55 545, e-mail: splot@mck-bydgoszcz.pl.