Amid warnings of the earth's end Peter encounters the Anthropos-Specter-Beast and travels with the Investigator Dog on mysterious trips into the Universe.

From early morning until late evening on Christmas Eve, a group of Polish citizens, including workers, students, a peasant woman, and a police informer, stand in line at a state-owned jewelry store awaiting a shipment of gold rings from the Soviet Union

Product Description: "We live, as we dream—alone," Conrad revealed in Heart of Darkness. This novel by Tadeusz Konwicki, a Pole writing in his own language, is an extension of the theme of dream and life and their interlocking realities, and man's attempt to come to meaningful and personal terms with an existential and absurd universe...read more

Product Description: As in his novel The Polish Complex, Konwicki's A Minor Apocalypse stars a narrator and character named Konwicki, who has been asked to set himself on fire that evening in front of the Communist Party headquarters in Warsaw in an act of protest...read more

This autobiographical novel recalls the first days of Polish Solidarity and the declaration of martial law as well as the author's Lithuanian childhood, his anti-Nazi and anti-communist activities, and his halfhearted conversion to communism and dissident activities

Shortly after accepting a marriage proposal from a gentry neighbor, Helena Konwick, a late-nineteenth-century Lithuanian, falls in love with a passionate and mysterious Jew

Sketches and reminiscences describing life on New World Avenue in Warsaw and in the author's native Wilno, now part of the Soviet Union, are woven together half-playfully, half-seriously to address Polish censorship