Michał Witkowski is a writer, performer and an author of one of the most widely discussed Polish novels of the early 21st century, “Lubiewo” – speaks about literature without academic distance and without safe filters. The lecture is a personal and at times very humorous account of how a writer is formed: through embarrassment, mistakes, external influences, self-censorship and a long struggle to find one’s own language.
This meeting resonates strongly with the values of the University of Lodz: courage, understood as a readiness to ask uncomfortable questions and go against the grain and curiosity – the need to understand the world and people in all their complexity.
Witkowski speaks, among other things, about the pressure of one’s environment, rejecting borrowed styles, the role of keeping a diary and the breakthrough that led to the creation of Lubiewo. It is a lecture for those interested in literature, writing and the creative process, but also in how personal experience can become artistic material.
The recording of the lecture is available on the “Science Inspires” YouTube channel.
Edit: Michał Gruda (Centre for External Relations, University of Lodz)
