Chapter 1. The garden of Eden, 1911-1920 "Darkness split by distant flashes, illuminations" The earthly paradise Good and bad blood A grenade under the bed Chapter 2. A young man and mysteries, 1921-1929 The apartment with fig-plants Tomcat Doctor Catchfly Manichean poisons Early literary tastes (and Russian roulette) Inside the lodge The rushing Heraclitean river Chapter 3. Black Ariel, 1930-1934 "I devote too little time to study" Egg-man The Cezary Baryka Complex Friday seminars, literary Wednesdays Leviathan's wardens "A bridge suspended in mid-air" The Devil's see-saw 'If early love had lasted...' "To the left, to the right" Chapter 4. The country of the first emigration, 1935-1939 "A certain student in the city of Paris" "The whole cosmos revolves within us" "On black meadows" Publican "A handful of unearthly truths" 'And Siena descends into light' 'In my homeland, to which I will not return' Warsaw friendships Janka Coming down to earth A blood-red star Chapter 5. Voices of poor people, 1939-1945 Medals in the suitcase Reflections on the inferno The theory of the last zloty Miranda's Island Gniewosz "A poor Christian looks at the ghetto" Noah's Ark Chapter 6. In partibus daemonis, 1945-1951 "We are from Lublin" Robinson Crusoe from Warsaw A pact with the Devil Mother's grave Rescue Chocholy "A passion for doing something useful" Open-source intelligence
