Gretkowska is one of the most gifted, widely read and popular Polish writers. And, undoubtedly, her fame is tinged with scandalousness. Her work is a “slap in the face of public taste,” a deliberate provocation of the reader. The narrative is a bizarre mixture of everyday life, mysticism, philosophy, irony turning into cynicism, eroticism bordering on pornography... It blurs the lines of the real and the surreal. Gretkovskaya’s prose can be perceived both as entertaining tales with “emptiness in parentheses” and as a philosophical treatise . The main thing is that she creates what is called real literature.