Disenchanted Europeans Polish Émigré Writers from Kultura and Postwar Reformulations of the West

'In a feat of careful research and textual analysis, Mikolajewski captures the way these Polish exile writers moved physically and existentially across the chasm of the Second World War, adjusting their views to the massive shifts in politics and society the war entailed. In the case of Bobkowski, his wartime anti-Semitism was an element he never fully confronted. This book makes a valuable contribution to the study of modern Polish literature and modern European intellectual life.' (Laura Engelstein, Henry S. McNeil Professor Emerita of Russian History, Yale University, co-translator with Grazyna Drabik of Andrzej Bobkowski, Wartime Notebooks: France, 1940-1944)

'A great exploration of ambiguities of Polish cultural identity.' (Janusz Korek, Stockholm University)