Oscar Mandel 
The History of Sigismund, Prince of Poland 

This short fiction by Belgian scholar Oscar Mandel follows the life of Sigismund, the lost prince of Poland. Beginning as a play in 1988, improved in 2002, Sigismund finally comes to prose, where it plays freely with Polish history to bring alive a fanciful tale rooted in philosophy.

Circa l’autore

Oscar Mandel is a Belgian-born American author and professor emeritus of literature at the California Institute of Technology. His published works range across the fields of poetry, drama, fiction, the essay, literary scholarship and theory, translations (especially from French and German), and art history.