'The faithful dog of my soul', according to the author, or three volumes of autobiography covering the second half of Witold Gombrowicz’s life in Argentina, a small part of his life in Germany and France after his return to Europe in 1963, and bits and pieces of Poland which he left in 1939, never to return. Together with a separately published collection of autobiographical sketches of his childhood, youth, early literary career and colleagues, written for Radio Free Europe while living in Argentina through the late 1950s.