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Gaither Stewart
.The Polish word,
jestem ‘I am’, ‘here I am’, ‘present’ seems to define the life of the writer and cult figure for a generation, Andrzej Kusniewicz. On an overcast, pollution-infested Warsaw afternoon over thirty years ago in his crowded study in a surprisingly bourgeois apartment in a quiet residential area of the capital city, the poet-novelist insisted on the Polish word and the multiple occasions of his life when he answered
jestem. I, the interviewer, came to feel he had earned a right to the word. For all his life he had been ‘present’ so in contrast to the past about which he wrote.