These are small but not minor works, and again show Jasieński to have been a considerable talent. A bit of an odd mix – though revealing his range, too – The Legs of Izolda Morgan, in its lovely Twisted Spoon edition, is a very appealing little book. Jasieński deserves a larger readership, and this excellent first-taste sampler should help him find that.

— The Complete Review

Those of us who are fond of Polish art, and these many splinter "-isms" that rounded out the War to End All Wars, will find much to pique them in this sketch of some mad artists (and jokesters) out of 1920s Poland.

— RALPH

This is a fascinating collection of pieces, exploring a number of themes from questions of Polish (and Jewish) identity through to predictions of eternal conflict and control of society. The themes are still incredibly relevant today in our society with its dependence on gadgets, and the title story, in which is concentrated all of humanity’s fear and hatred of the machine, contains a stark warning ...

— Karen Langley, Shiny New Books

The Legs of Izolda Morgan was an important work in Jasieński's literary career. It reflects his definite break with Futurism. In it he indicates his disapproval of the Futurist cult of technology by showing how the materialistic world disintegrates under the impact of an explosive thought or experience. ... The cult of the machine leads to insanity.

— Nina Kolesnikoff, Bruno Jasieński: His Evolution from Futurism to Socialist Realism

The underlying intention of ["The Legs of Izolda Morgan"] is to show that the violent intervention of machines in human life undermines the accepted premises on which the categories of being alive and being human have conventionally been based. The story thus illustrates the reciprocal contamination of previously clearly distinct categories of human and mechanical. The story also maintains that this happens as a result of people's fascination with the external, purely material nature of life, which leads them to misinterpret the essence underlying the categories of human and mechanical.

— Agatha Krzychylkiewicz, The Grotesque in the Works of Bruno Jasienski