From the Head

Janusz Głowacki

«From the Head» is an autobiographic book by world-famous dramatist and prose writer Janusz Głowacki. It is a collection of longer and shorter essays in which the author in an ironic way tells about stages of his creative coming-to-be and social atmosphere of Poland since fin de siècle till now. Some Polish critics consider the book to be a literary autobiography, others treat it as a collection of stories connected by a common character. The book, in any case, has already won popularity among Polish readers and abroad, and it would certainly be interesting for Ukrainian readers as well. Dynamic manner of narration, neat metaphors, expressive descriptions and characteristics, wide geography – from Warsaw and Paris to New York and Taipei – all these and some other attractions of the text will make this book a thrilling and didactive reader for the most demanding literary gourmand.