A journey through the literatures of Europe.

Julian Evans arrives in Poland, homeland of satirist and absurdist novelist
Witold Gombrowicz. Writing before and after his accidental exile to Argentina on the eve of the Second World War, Gombrowicz's work savages the inconsistencies of human nature and the idea of maturity. His lifetime coincided with some of the most turbulent times in Poland and his work was banned in turn by the Nazis, the Stalinists and the communists. Not until the end of martial law in the eighties did Polish literature emerge from censorship. Julian Evans investigates the influence and character of the Polish novel and meets acclaimed writers, including Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz.