<DIV>Józef Czapski (1896-1993) was an artist, author, critic, and one of the founders of the influential Polish emigré monthly <I>Kultura</I> (published in Paris until 2000). But who was the real Czapski? This cahier is a bold attempt by Keith Botsford to answer this question. Violating convention, he attempts to write Czapski's autobiography, or a ‘biography from within’. Besides Czapski's own words, twelve of his paintings bear testimony to this momentous life.</DIV>