"We live, as we dream-alone," Conrad revealed in Heart of Darkness. This novel by Tadeusz Konwicki, a Pole writing in his own language, is an extension of the theme of dream and life and their interlocking realities, and man's attempt to come to meaningful and personal terms with an existential and absurd universe. The antihero (in the Camusian sense) is shown at the opening of the novel just coming out of a coma, having tried to commit suicide by...