Witold Gombrowicz va ser novel·lista, no filòsof i per tant aquest petit volum que s'erigeix en compendi filosòfic és una gran ironia: més aviat un antimanual, escrit per un poeta, un dels expulsats de la famosa Rep&uacu...
A brilliant, semiautobiographical satirical novel from one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century Polish literature, now in a new English translation
Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 1953, still living as an expatriate in Argentina, he began his Diary with one of literature's most memorable openings:
Milan Kundera called Witold Gombrowicz "one of the great novelists of our century." His most famous novel, Cosmos , the recipient of the 1967 International Prize for Literature, is now available in a critically acclaimed translation, for the...
The place is Poland, in the early years of the German occupation. Pornografia''s narrator, an author named Witold Gombrowicz, meets a swarthy and overly formal man named Fyderyk at a Warsaw house party, and the two soon become engaged in a business...
Here are two major works by the famed Polish novelist and dramatist Witold Gombrowicz. The first, Cosmos, a metaphysical thriller, revolves around an absurd investigation. It is set in provincial Poland and narrated by a seedy, pathetic, and witty student...