STROBERSKI JAN, People and Pigeons (dedication by the author; cover design by Daniel Mróz)

Krakow 1963, Wydawnictwo Literackie, pp. 220, 12.5 x 19.5, soft cover with wrapper, minor rubbing and tearing of wrapper, minor undercoating on inside.
Jan Stoberski (1906 - 1997) - one of the most original Polish writers of the communist period, a master of detail, inseparably connected with Krakow and "Przekroj". He made his debut in 1955. He wrote exclusively short stories, which he collected in volumes: Zwierzenia durnia (1958), Przyjaciel mężatki (1960), Ludzie i gołębie (1963), Wyłapuję szczęście z powietrza (1966), Będę żył dalej! (1969), Everyone Else (1973), Notes of a Lover (1976), Love at the Counter (1980), Pranks of the Heart (1983) and The Conqueror of Sorrows (1988)
Jan Stoberski lived in the Franciscan way, eating little, walking everywhere, actually owning nothing, and borrowing most of the money he earned from printing stories. As he himself wrote, he "intoxicated himself with happiness out of thin air." He had only one addiction: he was addicted to people. Every day he traveled through Krakow along a strategically devised route, visiting the apartments of friends. During the visit, he said little, but listened eagerly, sometimes fell asleep, and after a while moved on to the next apartment, to the next people. Again he would listen, again he would fall asleep. At the same time he acted as if he was not there, as if he had put on an invisibility cap. After his careful rounds, he would return to his home in Paulinskaya and "make" literature from his observations.

(A. Baranski)