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Witold Gombrowicz

    4 augustus 1904 – 24 juli 1969

    Witold Gombrowicz was een Poolse romanschrijver en dramaturg wiens werken opvallen door diepgaande psychologische analyses, een gevoel voor paradox en een absurde, antinationale inslag. Zijn geschriften verkennen vaak thema's als onvolwassenheid, identiteitsvorming door sociale interacties en een ironische kijk op maatschappelijke rollen. Hoewel hij pas in de laatste jaren van zijn leven faam verwierf, wordt Gombrowicz nu beschouwd als een vooraanstaand figuur in de Poolse literatuur, gevierd om zijn unieke stem en prikkelende inzichten in het menselijk bestaan.

    Witold Gombrowicz
    Ferdydurke
    Pornografia
    The Possessed
    Cosmos and Pornografia
    Diary
    Diary. Volume 1
    • Diary. Volume 1

      • 232bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

      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.

      Diary. Volume 1
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    • Diary

      • 800bladzijden
      • 28 uur lezen

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written by a Polish expatriate living in Argentina is presented in a single-volume edition, now with previously unpublished pages restored.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

      Diary
      4,3
    • Cosmos and Pornografia

      Two Novels

      • 370bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      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.

      Cosmos and Pornografia
      4,1
    • The Possessed

      • 416bladzijden
      • 15 uur lezen

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

      The Possessed
      3,8
    • Pornografia

      • 248bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

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      Pornografia
      3,8
    • Ferdydurke

      • 281bladzijden
      • 10 uur lezen

      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.

      Ferdydurke
      3,8
    • Literární deník (roky 1953–1956) polského spisovatele žijícího v Argentině patří k nejvýznamnějším dílům polské literatury 20. století. Přeložila Helena Stachová. Úvod z italského originálu přeložil Martin Švehlík.

      Deník I. (1953 - 1956)
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    • 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.

      Dramaty
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