Włodzimierz Bolecki is professor at the Institute of Literary Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. An expert in literary criticism and history, he focuses primarily on modern fiction and the poetics and methodology of literary studies. He is the chief editor of Gustaw Herling’s collected works and the author of publications on Miłosz, Witkacy, Gombrowicz and other Polish writers.

• Contents: Gustaw Herling – Soviet concentration camps – Communist ideology – Stalinist period – Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago – Jertsevo gulag – Bertrand Russell, Albert Camus, Jorge Semprun.

Włodzimierz Bolecki is professor at the Institute of Literary Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. An expert in literary criticism and history, he focuses primarily on modern fiction and the poetics and methodology of literary studies. He is the chief editor of Gustaw Herling’s collected works and the author of publications on Miłosz, Witkacy, Gombrowicz and other Polish writers.

• Contents: Gustaw Herling – Soviet concentration camps – Communist ideology – Stalinist period – Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago – Jertsevo gulag – Bertrand Russell, Albert Camus, Jorge Semprun.

Włodzimierz Bolecki is professor at the Institute of Literary Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. An expert in literary criticism and history, he focuses primarily on modern fiction and the poetics and methodology of literary studies. He is the chief editor of Gustaw Herling’s collected works and the author of publications on Miłosz, Witkacy, Gombrowicz and other Polish writers.

• Contents: Gustaw Herling – Soviet concentration camps – Communist ideology – Stalinist period – Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago – Jertsevo gulag – Bertrand Russell, Albert Camus, Jorge Semprun.