

A Dreambook for Our Time, 1963, Tadeusz Konwicki. Translation by David Welsh. Penguin Books (1976). Cover illustration by Christopher Davis; cover design by Walter Brooks. 282 pages.


A Dreambook for Our Time, 1963, Tadeusz Konwicki. Translation by David Welsh. Penguin Books (1976). Cover illustration by Christopher Davis; cover design by Walter Brooks. 282 pages.

The Barbusse literally fell into my hands when I was pulling down a different book. I’d never heard of Hell until today but its title, cover, and blurb — “the most highly study of voyeurism” — sold me. Penguin’s Writers from Other Europe has always intrigued me and the cover alone on Tadeusz Konwicki’s A Dreambook for Our Time led to me picking it up.