Why is the truth so weak?

"Why is the truth so weak?" is a bilingual collection of philosophical, social, and mythological poems by one of the most prominent contemporary Belarusian authors, Ales Arkush. The texts, translated into Polish by Beata Siewiec, reflect complex issues of national identity, everyday life, and literary self-expression, presented through paradoxes, parables, and authorial irony.

Social, national, ideological, philosophical, aesthetic — the author eagerly absorbs everything and experiences everything as inherently personal, transforming the ordinary, everyday, openly social into a wondrous world of unexpected associations, paradoxes, myths and fables. (Ales Minkin)

Ales Arkush — Belarusian poet, prose writer and essayist. Author of more than twenty books of poetry, prose, essays and rock song lyrics. Works were translated into Polish, Ukrainian, Russian and Spanish, published in the magazines "Czas Kultury" (Poznan), "Borussia" (Olsztyn), "Ukrainian Seed" (Kharkiv), etc. Publisher of the legendary samizdat almanac "Xerox Belarusian", which was replaced by the literary almanac "Kolossie". Creator of the Society of Free Writers and the publishing community "Polotsk Lyada". Chairman of the organizing committee of the literary award "Glyany Veles".

Beata Siwek – Polish literary critic, researcher of Belarusian literature and drama, and translator. Doctor of Literary Studies. Head of the Department of Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian Literatures at the Catholic University of Lublin. Author of numerous monographs, scientific articles, and abstracts.