Witkiewicz's 1927 masterpiece, made famous in Polish dissident and Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz's The Captive Mind , is one of the most unforgettable depictions of the tensions and trade-offs between ideological loyalty and individual conscience in world literature. Futuristic, experimental, and remarkably prophetic,  Insatiability  traces the choices of a young Pole as his divided nation both opposes and welcomes a communitarian invasion from the east offering a narcotic that both removes anxieties and induces obedience. An anti-Utopian classic, it foretold the irresoluble and sometimes deadly choices that faced Eastern European thinkers, writers, and politicians during the years of Soviet domination.   "Magnificent." —Susan Sontag "One of the key works of European literary modernism . . . an exhilarating amalgam of Swiftian satire, Dostoyevskian intensity, and (an acknowledged influence) Rabelaisian digressiveness. And one of the most exciting novels of its time." — Kirkus Reviews  "The translation is brilliant, smoothly finding perfect phrases and puns." — Publishers Weekly   "There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself—he three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains to be discovered." —Witold Gombrowicz STANISLAW IGNACY WITKIEWICZ (1885-1939) was a Polish novelist, poet, and playwright. An ardent nationalist, Witkiewicz killed himself in 1939 upon hearing that the Soviet Army had invaded Poland. LOUIS IRIBARNE is a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto. He has translated several works by Polish writers such as Gombrowicz, Milosz, and Schulz.