Abstract
Short story by a Polish writer whose work can appear only in unofficial publications
Born in 1935 in Warsaw, Kazimierz Orlos graduated in Law and worked for a time as a legal adviser before becoming an editor of Polish Radio. He lost his job when his first novel was published by the Instytut Literacky in Paris in 1973. He had already brought out three collections of short stories, having made his literary debut in 1961, and another novel followed in 1980. None of his work has appeared in Poland since the early seventies, but he has published in the unofficial quarterly Zapis, of which he was one of the editors. Our story is taken from Pustynia Gobi (‘The Gobi Desert’), a collection of his short stories published by Puls Publications in London in 1983.