I Burn Paris has remained one of Poland's most uncomfortable masterstrokes of literature since its initial and controversial serialization by Henri Barbusse in 1928 in l'Humanit (for which Jasieński was deported for disseminating subversive literature).
It tells the story of a disgruntled factory worker who, finding himself on the streets, takes the opportunity to poison Paris's water supply.
With the deaths piling up, we encounter Chinese communists, rabbis, disillusioned scientists, e.
