Possession quite often appears in pop culture, and fans of the topic are looking for new items. Or maybe you want to know a little different view on this theme?
Have you ever wondered what would happen if a human controlled the demon during the possession and not the other way around? Artur Urbanowicz tries to answer this question in his latest book – a man of many talents, a mathematician by education, an academic lecturer and writer on a daily basis. The novel Deman , set in Warsaw, is an intricately constructed, 700-page-long story that is a tribute to comics – primarily of the super hero genre, which is one of the most important phenomena of contemporary popular culture. The main character of the novel is Dorian – a priest who has to deal not only with his own demons, but also with the consequences of having superhuman skills.
The latest novel by Artur Urbanowicz is a comic book momentum in Polish realities, a tribute to an important cultural phenomenon, which are superhero mythologies, and an excellent psychological story about the stigma, responsibility and consequences of having superhuman powers that each of us dreams of.
Artur Urbanowicz at the age of fourteen wrote his first novel. The writer consciously uses genres, creating a literature that combines various conventions, surprising and keeping readers in suspense until the last page. For promoting his native Suwałki Region, he was nominated in the polls of Gazeta Wyborcza and Radio 5. Scholarship holder of the city of Suwałki and Gdańsk as part of his artistic activity.
The author made his debut in 2016 with the novel Gałęziste , which brought him a Złoty Kosciej and a nomination for the Wiesław Kazanecki. In 2017, Grzesznik had its premiere – a horror film with elements of a gangster novel awarded with the Stefan Grabiński. In 2019, the best-selling Incubus was released, awarded with the Złoty Kościej and nominated for the Teddy Bears pop culture award .
In his literature, Urbanowicz invites readers on a journey through the dark recesses of his native Suwałki Region. He creates a fantastic world, full of mysteries and disturbing mood. The action of Gałęzistych revolves around the forests of the Suwałki Region. For the purposes of the novel , Gałęziste created a fictional town – Białodęby. The whole plot is focused – as the title itself may suggest – around the forests of the Suwałki Region. In Inkuba , Urbanowicz recalls the town of Jodoziory, haunted by a Slavic witch.
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