Jìzef Czapski (1896-1993) was an artist, author, critic, and one of the founders of the influential Polish emigr© monthly Kultura (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