RENCONTRE AVEC AGNIESZKA SZPILA : LE SEXE ET L’IMAGINATION AU POUVOIR (FESTIVAL UN WEEKEND À L’EST)

Writer, screenwriter, and activist Agnieszka Szpila made her mark in Poland with Hexes (translated by Cécile Bocianowski, Notabilia / Noir sur Blanc, 2024), a true literary bombshell, finalist for the prestigious Nike Prize and the Prix des Inrockuptibles. With Octopussy (translated by Cécile Bocianowski, Notabilia / Noir sur Blanc, 2026), she pushes her reflections on power dynamics, feminism, and the ecological crisis further. In these “post-porn stories”, she imagines the end of the Anthropocene, summoning lizards, gorillas, bacchantes, ghosts, and marine creatures to reinvent our fantasies and our relationship with the living world. A radical, unbridled work where eroticism becomes a tool for political, ecological, and feminist thought.

Meeting moderated by Caroline Pernes, journalist for “Livres et Idées”, Télérama.

Photo credit: Kinga Karpati & Daniel Zarewicz.