The Dark Domain - Stefan Grabinski Penguin Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

Hawkwind offered a form of radical escapism and an alternative account of a strange new world for a generation of young people growing up on a planet that seemed to be teetering on the brink of destruction

as he stole from many others in his life (Sachs would later propose writing a book entitled Confessions of a Thief)

As he writes of his translations in How I Became One of the Invisible

The Dark Domain - Stefan Grabinski Penguin Octavio PazThe Dark Domain by Stefan Grabinski ISBN 9781909232044 153 page paperback from Dedalus European Classics *** " reading The Dark Domain by Stefan Grabinski is such a revelatory experience. Because here is a writer for whom supernatural horror is manifest precisely in modernity in electricity, fire stations, trains: the uncanny as the bad conscience of today. Sometimes Grabinski is known as the Polish Poe but this is misleading. Where Poe's horror is