Insatiability

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Original title: Nienasycenie

earliest edition we have, 1977 Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1992 641 pages

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This novel, the author's masterpiece, is one of the greatest expressions ever of the tortured intersection of political and personal destinies in Eastern Europe. Futuristic, experimental, and remarkably prophetic, the book traces the adventures of a young Pole whose own fate parallels the collapse of Western civilization following a Chinese communist invasion from the East. Written in 1927, Witkiewicz's novel presag...

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Editions we hold

Insatiability edition · 1996 · Northwestern University Press · 534 pages
Nienasycenie edition · 1992 · Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy · 641 pages
Insatiability paperback · 1985 · Salem House Publishers · 480 pages · 9780704334830
Insatiability edition · 1977 · University of Illinois Press · 447 pages

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