A Polish writer’s experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider’s perspective on politics, culture, and life under duressWhen the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied France in 1940, he recorded his reflections on culture, politics, history, and everyday life. Published after the war, his notebooks offer an outsider’s perspective on the hardships and ironies of the Occupation.In t...