Still Alive

I've just finished Still Alive by Jan Kott which is an autobiography originally published in English in 1994. Jan was a Polish poet and a communist.  He survived World War II when the Germans and the Russians invaded and he survived Stalin's purges. He had an interesting life and lived to tell about it.  I was particularly interested in reading this book because Kott was a contemporary of my Polish father who also survived World War II but lived a very different life.  So I wanted to learn more about the history of Poland at that time.  I found the book very hard going as it jumps around different time periods.  I also found it difficult to know who was who because of the difficult Polish names.  I would find my mind wandering, then occasionally drawn back to the story.  3/5