Chapter 1. The garden of Eden, 1911-1920
"Darkness split by distant flashes, illuminations"
Chapter 2. A young man and mysteries, 1921-1929
The apartment with fig-plants
Early literary tastes (and Russian roulette)
The rushing Heraclitean river
Chapter 3. Black Ariel, 1930-1934
"I devote too little time to study"
The Cezary Baryka Complex
Friday seminars, literary Wednesdays
"A bridge suspended in mid-air"
'If early love had lasted ... '
"To the left, to the right"
Chapter 4. The country of the first emigration, 1935-1939
"A certain student in the city of Paris"
"The whole cosmos revolves within us"
"A handful of unearthly truths"
'And Siena descends into light'
'In my homeland, to which I will not return'
Chapter 5. Voices of poor people, 1939-1945
Reflections on the inferno
The theory of the last zloty
"A poor Christian looks at the ghetto"
Chapter 6. In partibus daemonis, 1945-1951
Robinson Crusoe from Warsaw
"A passion for doing something useful"
Open-source intelligence.
