Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968

The journey from avant-garde to radical Marxism among the literati of 1920s Poland

“In the elegant capital city of Warsaw, the editor Mieczyslaw Grydzewski would come with his two dachshunds to a café called Ziemianska.” Thus begins the history of a generation of Polish literati born at the fin de siècle. They sat in Café Ziemianska and believed that the world moved on what they said there. Caviar and Ashes tells the story of the young avant-gardists of the early 1920s who became the radic...