Polish Writers on Writing captures the brilliance and originality of a literature rightly considered one of the most important and influential of our time. No common denominator, not even the easy one of "Polish twentieth-century author," does justice to the variety of talents, styles, and experiences in this collection. The writers are branded by the political realities of their country - creating literature out of the brutality of the Second World War, under the inhibiting and numbing Communist reign, and finally within a free society, but one burdened by its history. -- from back cover.
