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Andrzej Stasiuk on his favourite Polish public holiday

The Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk explains why for him All Souls' Day is Poland's most beautiful public holiday. "It's a strange, anachronistic celebration. It doesn't fit in with our times. It distracts you from the practicalities of everyday life. We're wasting time when hundreds of thousands of us travel around visiting the graves of those who were once with us. This is an archaic, primitive public holiday. ... Once a year we light small fires at the places where we have buried our dead so that they will exist for ever and we can find them again. They are the best proof of our existence. What would mankind be without his ancestors? This is an absurd question. And so once a year we mark these places with light so that the black, empty, infinite universe knows that our battle against it continues; against its nihilism and its indifference. When dusk falls, the visitors get back into their cars or buses and go home, leaving lit-up graveyards behind them. This is one of the most moving images to be seen in Poland."

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