Transparency Poland fished from the depths of

fished from the depths of the author's memory as well as from the stream of his day-to-day life as an adult author

these tales take to pieces the psyches of two men—and a nation—at war with themselves

Sarduy traces the metamorphosis of two hitherto incomparable societies

“An original and challenging short novel

Transparency Poland fished from the depths ofDrawing on his resources as a novelist, cultural critic, and scholar, Marek Bieczyk peels away the layers of our contemporary obsession with "transparency," skipping across centuries and continents to piece together the genesis of our fears of deception. Milan Kundera on Marek Bieczyk's Transparency: "The subject of transparency has always interested me; in The Art of the Novel I discussed it as one of the key words in my personal lexicon. Marek