Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: A Biographical Sketch -- CHAPTER TWO: Polish Futurism: Its Origin and Aesthetic Programme -- CHAPTER THREE: The Poetry of Bruno Jasienski and the Futurist Quest to Renovate Poetic Language -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Lay of Jakub Szela and Folklore -- CHAPTER FIVE: I Burn Paris-A Utopian Novel -- CHAPTER SIX: Bruno Jasienski and Soviet Literary Life 1929-1934 -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Man Changes His Skin and the Industrial Novel -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Socialist Realism in "Bravery" and A Conspiracy of the Indifferent -- CHAPTER NINE: Grotesque Elements in The Ball of the Mannequins and "The Nose" -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX: A Selection of Bruno Jasienski's Poetry with Prose Translation of Each Poem -- A Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.