Witold Gombrowicz Books

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. Gombrowicz's "Diary" grew to become a vast collection of essays, short notes, polemics, and confessions on myriad subjects ranging from political events to literature to the certainty of death. Not a traditional journal, "Diary" is instead the commentary of a brilliant and restless mind. Widely regarded as a masterpiece, this brilliant work compelled Gombrowicz's attention for a decade and a half until he penned his final entry in France, shortly before his death in 1969.

A landmark autobiography written by a Polish expatriate living in Argentina is presented in a single-volume edition, now with previously unpublished pages restored. Original.

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, who is charming and appalling by turns, and whose voice is dense with the richly palpable description that characterizes Gombrowicz's writing. The second, Pornografia, explores the sinister effect the young can have on the old. To serve their own secret eroticism, two aging intellectuals encourage a young couple to commit murder. Although the adolescents are the weapons used to commit the crime, the four become conspirators before the deed is done.

A darkly funny and subversive Gothic horror novel by Poland's greatest modernist.

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In this bitterly funny novel by the renowned Polish author Witold Gombrowicz. a writer finds himself tossed into a chaotic world of schoolboys by a diabolical professor who wishes to reduce him to childishness. Originally published in Poland in 1937. Ferdydurke became an instant literary sensation and catapulted the young author to fame. Deemed scandalous and subversive by Nazis. Stalinists. and the Polish Communist regime in turn. the novel (as well as all of Gombrowicz's other works) was officially banned in Poland for decades. It has nonetheless remained one of the most influential works of twentieth-century European literature.Ferdydurke is translated here directly from the Polish for the first time. Danuta Borchardt deftly captures Gombrowicz's playful and idiosyncratic style. and she allows English speakers to experience fully the masterpiece of a writer whom Milan Kundera describes as "one of the great novelists of our century." Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) wrote three other novels. Trans-Atlantyk. Pornografia. and Cosmos. which together with his plays and his three-volume Diary have been translated into more than thirty languages.

Dramaty Wiotolda Gombrowicza w nowej, kolekcjonerskiej edycji W niniejszym tomie znajdują się wszystkie sztuki Witolda Gombrowicza: Iwona, księżniczka Burgunda Ślub Operetka A także nie dokończony dramat Historia , odnaleziony wśród pozostawionych przez Gombrowicza rękopisów.

Wyjątkowe, nie znajdujące porównania w polskiej literaturze dzieło, które od półwiecza nie straciło na aktualności. Z osobistych utarczek Witolda Gombrowicza z całym światem powstał dziennik, który przekracza wszystkie możliwe granice, wywołuje tematy przemilczane i te, którymi żył i nadal żyje świat.

Ein Buch ohne Ende, ein Meisterwerk des Denkens und Beobachtens: Witold Gombrowicz' ›Tagebuch‹ gehört zu den bedeutendsten Beispielen dieses Genres.In seinen Aufzeichnungen setzt Witold Gombrowicz sich mit »einem Maximum an Frechheit« mit der Welt auseinander, sie sind der »Versuch einer extremen Revidierung der Kultur«. Die Reflexionen, Analysen, Paradoxien und Provokationen des eigensinnigen und äußerst gebildeten Denkers reizen den Leser zu Gelächter, Zustimmung und Nachdenken. Gombrowicz' Überlegungen zu philosophischen historischen und aktuellen Themen wie Marxismus, Katholizismus oder Homosexualität sind unerwartet und weisen auf verblüffende Zusammenhänge – sie sind aufschlussreiche Pamphlete gegen jedwede Lüge und Ideologie.