A Dreambook for Our Time invites you into a hallucinatory landscape where dreams and reality collide in a restless search for meaning. Written by the celebrated Polish author Tadeusz Konwicki and first published in English by Penguin in 1976, this haunting novel opens with a man awakening from a suicide-induced coma to an uncanny village frozen in isolation. There, townspeople—emotionally starved and spiritually untethered—have created their own private gods. Through a fragmented narrative and flashbacks, the protagonist’s internal struggle unfolds as he grapples with the absurdity of existence, the longing for redemption, and the suffocating guilt of war. Chosen by Czesław Miłosz as “one of the most terrifying novels in post-war Polish literature,” Konwicki harnesses dreamlike, nightmarish imagery to reveal the emotional scars of modern life. A Dreambook for Our Time is an intense, lyrical meditation on alienation, memory, and the search for transcendence in a fractured world.