Still Alive An Autobiographical Essay Author:Jan Kott In Still Alive, the renowned Polish essayist and theater critic Jan Kott recounts his perilous odyssey through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid twentieth century. Available in English for the first time, Kott`s lively account of Parisian Surrealists before the Second World War, his adventures as a partisan in the Polish ... more »underground, his postwar involvement and subsequent disillusionment with communism and, finally, his emigration to America, illuminates not only the fate of a whole generation of Eastern European intellectuals, but also the book`s main concern: how to make sense of one`s own existence.« less