WIELKIE KSIĘSTWO GROTESKI (The Grand Duchy of Grotesque)

Five years. Almost forty bold and thought-provoking columns.
Short forms in which Twardoch dissects Poland, Silesia and the world.

Topics that have moved Poles since 2016 through the lens of Szczepan Twardoch. The author of The King of Warsaw unapologetically exposes the fears, weaknesses, and complexes of the Polish government. He listens to what the street is saying and what is heard at the Warsaw banquets.
Law and Justice or Civic Platform? Same-sex marriage – for or against? Committee for the Defence of Democracy and Radio Maryja. The Warsaw Uprising and, of course, the great discussion about Silesian autonomy.
Twardoch, without resorting to literary fiction, criticises, seduces with his uncompromising stance and polemical talent. At the same time, he talks surprisingly much about himself – about the winding road to success, his visit to a Hamburg dive bar, Spitsbergen and the occasional need for solitude.
You will find many confessions here, full of distance, irony, but also honesty:
‘I am noisy. When someone bores me, I interrupt them mid-sentence because I can, and it is hell to listen politely to boring people. I’m clumsy, too honest, I make one blunder after another (ugh!), I sit and stand when I feel like it, not when I should, I make so-called language mistakes, I curse, and what’s worse, sometimes I say “wziąść” instead of “wziąć”. My accent is not great, and to top it all off, I couldn’t care less. Simply put: I am a boor.’

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