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This biographical study, first published in 1985, draws on extensive newly available material and illuminates the life and work of a man who lived through one of the most turbulent periods of Russian history to produce some of his country's greatest poetry and its most significant modern novel.

A happy childhood "under such circumstances", Poznań (1925-1932) -- A pupil like no other, Poznań (1932-1939) -- The fate of a war refugee (1939-1944): Poznan, Molodeczna -- Russian Exodus, 1941-1943: Gorki and the forest -- "Holy War", 1943-1945 -- Officer of the Internal Security Corps, 1945-1953 -- "A man in a socialist society", Warsaw 1947-1953 -- Young scholar's life, 1953-1957 -- Years of hope -- (1957-1967) -- Bad romance with the Security Police -- The "Year 1968" -- Holy land -- British professor -- An intellectual at work -- Global thinker

Beginnings: alapanam -- First budding, Tamil from the inside : pallavi -- Second budding, the musical self : anupallavi -- The imperial moment, truth, and sound : caranam 1 -- Republic of syllables : caranam 2 -- A Tamil modernity : caranam 3 -- Beyond the merely modern : ragamalika

Title Page -- Epigraph -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1: AND GOD CREATED COKE -- 2: WINTER SLEEP AND SPRING AWAKENING -- 3: MIAMI AND COLOMBIA -- 4: THE EIGHTIES: DAYS OF THUNDER -- 5: GLOBAL SPILL: PRODUCING AND SMUGGLING -- 6: COCAINE TODAY: NEW HORIZONS -- CONCLUSION -- A NOTE ON THE SOURCES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- PERMISSIONS AND PICTURE CREDITS -- Also available from The Robson Press -- Copyright