Sylwia Dominika Chrostowska, born to Polish parents and raised in Poland at the end of the Cold War, completed her PhD at the University of Toronto at the Centre for Comparative Literature under the supervision of historian Brian Stock.
She draws especially on the writings of French Surrealism, the Situationist International, and Survivre...et vivre to excavate the utopian energies of May '68 as they wrestled with the contradiction between accelerating economic development and life being generally reduced to survival, including through rampant consumerism.
[5] Her second novel, The Eyelid, is a critical dystopia set in near-future Paris, the capital of the world state of Greater America, and tells the story of two travelers through other people's dreams on a quest to save humanity from total insomniac dreamlessness.
[7] According to German Sierra at Full Stop, the novella "might well become an instant cult book until it makes its way to a much deserved place at the top of any list of utopian-dystopian fiction masterworks.
"[8] Its unique blend of narrative and social critique stages a dialectical confrontation, typical of the novel of ideas, between dystopian and utopian currents in contemporary capitalist societies.