Book The Head of a Snake
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Lukasz Orbitowski (b. 1977) is a graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University. Winner of many prestigious Polish literary awards, including the Jerzy Żóławski Literary Prize, the Janusz Seidel Prize, the Stefan Grabiński Polish Literary Prize and the SFinks Prize, Łukasz Orbitowski reflects contemporary trends in the literary field of many genres - from horror and mysticism through social drama and hard realism to magical realism and elements of deep psychology. Starting his career in the genres of mysticism, science fiction and horror, Orbitowski has been looking more and more towards realism and social drama, which, however, does not prevent him from continuing to be the author of incredibly bizarre and mysterious texts in which the usual everyday reality is inseparable from the reality of another, alien and unfamiliar reality, which is always somewhere here, nearby, but, unfortunately or fortunately, not everyone has the optics to observe it. Lukasz Orbitowski, for example, is not only able to see it, but also has a real talent as a storyteller whose words you immediately believe, regardless of the strangeness of the story he tells.
Lukasz Orbitowski is the best proof of the latest trends of the increasingly confident entry of near-fiction into general literature, as today this writer is considered one of the most powerful representatives of contemporary Polish literature. Łukasz Orbitowski is often referred to as the Polish Stephen King, and the writer himself jokingly calls himself the Luke Skywalker of Polish literature.
This book is a kind of a cross-section of Orbitowski's work, as all twelve stories presented in it are presented in the chronology of their creation and are important points on the map of his creative biography.



