Zeleński- Boy Tadeusz- Znaszli ten kraj? Bohemian Krakow [cover design by Jan Gotwa].

Warsaw 1949/ Czytelnik/15x21.5cm/s.161/ 52 black and white illustrations in the text/ publisher's binding, booklet/ good condition, minor fraying of the edges of the front cover and pages 7 and 71, foreign exlibris before and after the text

The cover was designed by Jan Gotwa

"Znaszli ten kraj?..." is first and foremost an attempt by a witness and participant to record a number of episodes and details, insights and silhouettes related to the artistic milieu of Young Poland in Krakow. This text is, of course, also - by the way - an attempt to formulate his own opinions on a number of - in Boy's opinion, knotty - issues of the past era. (...)

The fictional optics, bringing out above all what is funny, sometimes acts like a pencil in the satirist's hand: it thickens certain features, emphasizes certain traits while removing others into the shadows: the result is a conformation similar to its original, but not at all identical with it.