Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Bruno Schulz: The Prisoner of Myth -- Witold Gombrowicz: The Transforming Self -- Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz: Modernism to Madness -- Czeslaw Milosz: A Testament of Exile -- Zbigniew Herbert: The Darkness of Mr. Cogito -- Wislawa Szymborska: The Power of Preserving -- Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski: Sleepless in Naples -- Tadeusz Konwicki: Polish Endgame -- Adam Zagajewski: To Hear the Sound of Everything -- Notes -- Suggested Reading -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.