| Gra (The Game): poetry; the first book by T. Sobieraj. His late debut in literature – as Whitman's, Schulz's or Hrabal's – gave poems imbued by deep engagement with history, philosophy, life, nature. This poetry has enormous clarity, urgency, power, and after this book, he became one of the most readable contemporary poets among real Polish intellectuals.
Tomasz Sobieraj, Gra; Studio Komunikacji Wizualnej, ISBN 978-83-908983-2-2; first edition 2008; 68 p., preface: Georg A. Fichte. |  | Dom Nadzoru (Panopticon): short stories; title is inspired
by J. Bentham's idea of Panopticon. Dreamy, schisophrenical, sometimes grotesque stories, but situated in real world; a kind of synthesis of document and fiction. Philosophical, metaphysical, luminous and searching, for many also very controversial literature, difficult to qualify, free from „political correctness” but, last but not least, full of black humor. This is a book to be read once through and returned to often, a book of greatest importance for contemporary literature. A book by F. Kafka of the XXI century.
Tomasz Sobieraj, Dom Nadzoru; Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek, ISBN 978-83-7611-223-7; first edition, 2009; 61 p. + 16 author's photographs from photographic essay Colossal mug of the city, preface: Zygmunt Herman. | 
| Wojna Kwiatów (The War of Flowers): poetry; luminous, philosophical poems, but sometimes combined with his wry or black humor, makes Tomasz Sobieraj a contemporary classic. He has attained the lucid intelligence, clarity and power, which are his trade marks, as is his skepticism – even skepticism for skepticism (as in E. Renan's works, one of Sobieraj's favourite philosophers). Elegant poetry, but also full of pithy and compelling observations on society, art, mankind, nature and philosophy, highest poetry, which discovers things unobserved in reality, but existing.
Tomasz Sobieraj, Wojna Kwiatów; Editions Sur Ner, ISBN 978-83-908983-0-8; first edition, 2009; 64 p., preface: Janusz Najder. | 
| Ogólna teoria jesieni (General theory of autumn): novel; magical realism; twenty stories balancing between realism, weird realism and dreamy atmosphere, known from Kafka and Schulz; amazing, poetic book, where beauty of darkness is mixed with the beauty of lightness; it's not a Kafka's plaint - it's a celebration, it's a lust, it's a mystery.
Tomasz Sobieraj, General theory of autumn, Editions sur Ner, ISBN 978-83-928664-1-1, wydanie I, 2010 |
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