We invite you to a meeting with the best guides to the literature of Günter Grass. On the eighth anniversary of the death of the Gdańsk Nobel Prize winner, on April 13 at 5.30 p.m., the Institute of Urban Culture will host a meeting about the literary guide Wanderings with Günter Grass—a Literary Cartography of the City, edited by dr hab. Miłosława Borzyszkowska-Szewczyk, prof. UG and dr Marta Turska.

The book will be discussed by prof. Miłosława Borzyszkowska-Szewczyk, co-author and -editor; Joanna Czudec, cultural manager and translator; and Basil Kerski, director of the European Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk.

The guidebook contains 9 routes mapped out by the grasso scholars associated with the City - prof. Miłosława Borzyszkowska-Szewczyk, prof. dr hab. Marion Brandt, Andrzej Faca, dr Anna Kowalewska-Mróz, prof. dr hab. Mirosław Ossowski, dr Marta Turska and Marta Wróblewska. The authors guide you through the more or less obvious places of Wrzeszcz and Oliwa, the Old and Main Towns, the Gdańsk Shipyard and Kaszuby. They read the space of the City through the prism of the dialogues of post-war Gdańsk writers with Grass's image of Gdańsk, the Nobel Prize winner's 'unremembering' of the City's Jewish past, its memory of flavours and hunger.

The lavishly illustrated volume also contains sketches of the routes, and the elaborate layout will make the guide a valuable souvenir from Gdańsk. 

We would also like to invite you to the exhibition The Great GRASSing, which was prepared based on the guide by the University of Gdańsk Museum in collaboration with the Borderland Narratives Research Workshop (Institute of German Philology), the Günter Grass Association in Gdańsk, ACK Alternator and the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, is on display at Hevelius Square in front of the Old Town Hall until the end of April.

The publication results from a research and animation project carried out by the Border Narratives Research Laboratory at the University of Gdańsk and the Günter Grass Association in Gdańsk with several partners.