His most acclaimed novel, "A Minor Apocalypse" (1979), is widely considered to be among the most important works of post-WWII Eastern European literature. It is required reading for all Polish high school students.
I write above all for the reader, with the intention of giving pleasure, amusing, stunning or destroying. It is impossible to write without another person.
Cancer
Nowa Wilejka, Wilenskie, Poland [now Naujoji Vilnia, Vilnius, Lithuania]
(age 88)
Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland