by critics in many Polish cities, including Warsaw and Lwów, where he met Marian Hemar. Jasieński collaborated with various newspapers, such as the leftist Trybuna Robotnicza, Nowa Kultura and Zwrotnica. In 1922, Pieśń o głodzie ('Song of Hunger') was published, followed in 1924 by Ziemia na lewo ('Earth Leftwards', written together with Stern). In 1923 he married Klara Arem, daughter of a merchant from Lwów. That year Jasieński witnessed a workers' rebellion in Kraków, which prompted him to join the Polish communist movement. He gave public lectures on Marxist philosophy and revolutionary strategies for class struggle. In France Persecuted by the police, Jasieński and his wife moved to France in 1925; they settled in Paris in Passage Poissonniere. The couple lived a humble life, making ends meet as journalists and correspondents of various Polish newspapers. Jasieński, together with Zygmunt Modzelewski, formed an amateur theatre for the Polish worker diaspora living in Saint-Denis. He wrote numerous poems, essays and books, many of which expressed his radical views. Jasieński became an active member of the French Communist Party. He pursued library research on the 1846 peasant uprising of Jakub Szela in the Austrian Partition of Poland and on Polish folklore. He wrote the poem Słowo o Jakubie Szeli ('A note on Jakub Szela'). In 1928, he serialised the work which secured his reputation, Palę Paryż ('I burn Paris'), a Futurist-Catastrophist novel depicting the collapse and decay of the city and social tensions within capitalist societies. It was published in the leftist L'Humanité newspaper in French as Je brûle Paris, which was soon translated into Russian. In 1929, the original Polish text was published in Warsaw. The novel was also a humorous reply to Paul Morand's pamphlet I Burn Moscow, published shortly before. It gained Jasieński much fame in France, but also became the main reason why in 1929 he was deported from the country, ostensibly for disseminating dangerous political propaganda. Not admitted to Belgium and Luxembourg, he moved to Germany and stayed in Frankfurt for a while. After the withdrawal of the extradition order he returned to France, only to be expelled once more. In the Soviet Union In 1929 Jasieński moved to the Soviet Union and settled in Leningrad, where he accepted Soviet citizenship and was promoted by the authorities. The first Russian edition of I Burn Paris was issued in 130,000 copies and sold out in one day. The same