Volume 38, Number 14 · August 15, 1991

'How to Leave a House of Slavery'

By Neal Ascherson
Solidarity, Solitude
by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Lillian Vallee

Ecco, 176 pp., $19.95

Between East and West: Writings from 'Kultura'
edited by Robert Kostrzewa

Hill and Wang, 273 pp., $30.00

The Soccer War
by Ryszard Kapuscinski, translated by William Brand

Knopf, 234 pp., $21.00

We begin to know some of the answers to those questions. They were posed, originally, back in 1984 by the poet Adam Zagajewski—posed with a thick pinch of self-mockery, as the sort of questions that would occur to friends of Poland from the West who worried that the moral splendor of the Polish intellectuals might evaporate when their oppression was lifted. All the same, they were shrewd questions to raise seven years ago.



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