»Remembering. Meeting with Tanya Malyarchuk«
Ukrainian
Host: Katarzyna Kotyńska
In her novel Zabuttia, Tanya Malyarchuk depicts the story of people dedicated to strengthening Ukrainian national identity. Vyacheslav Lypynsky, a politician of Polish origin, has chosen Ukrainianness as a form of life; however, not the life of the individual, but rather that of a community. He wants to share with others what for him is the foundation of a social existence worth arguing and fighting for. The novel prompts questions which, in the context of the current war in Ukraine, are of fundamental importance: about the bonds that unite individuals into a national community, about the ability of the latter to defend its independence, about the cultural emanations of identity, about the possibility of cooperation with other communities, about internal and external forms of communication and, finally, about collective memory.
»When Will the 20th Century End? Meeting with Artur Domosławski«
Polish
Host: Małgorzata Szczurek
The 20th century has been described as the shortest century in history – beginning in 1918 and thus at the end of the First World War and concluding with the fall of communism in 1989. Yet the conflicts we see every day appear as a continuation of 20th century processes, fed by a mixture of regressive psychosocial impulses and dreams of rapid modernisation. In his journalism and biographies (of both Kapuściński and Bauman), Artur Domosławski not only presents the reader with concrete figures but also outlines the historical panorama against which the actions and decisions of his protagonists become comprehensible to us. That is why we decided to ask him the question set in the title, which concerns as much the past and the present as the future, to which we look with concern.
