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Bacacay by Witold Gombrowicz
Category: Fiction
A balloonist finds himself set upon by erotic lepers...a passenger on a ship notices a human eye on the deck...a group of aristocrats enjoy a vegetarian dish made from human flesh...a virginal young girl gnaws raw meat from a bone...a notorious ruffian is terrorized by a rat. Welcome to the bizarre univ ...Show more
Diary by GOMBROWICZ WITOLD
Category: Biography | Series: World Republic of Letters Ser.
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: Monday - Me; Tuesday - Me; Wednesday - Me; and, Thursday - ...Show more
Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters (Paperback)
In this bitterly funny novel 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" was deemed scandalous and subversive by Nazis, Stalinists, and the Polish Communist regim ...Show more
Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz & Danuta Borchardt (transl.)
Category: Activity
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 an ...Show more
Pornografia by Witold Gombrowicz
Category: Fiction
- John Updike called Gombrowicz "one of the profoundest late moderns" and Milan Kundera describes him as "one of the great novelists of our century"
The Possessed by Witold Gombrowicz; Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Category: Fiction
From a "master of verbal burlesque and a connoisseur of psychological blackmail" (John Updike), Witold Gombrowicz's harrowing and hilarious pastiche of the Gothic novel, now in a new, authoritative English translation. Witold Gombrowicz is considered by many to be Poland's greatest modernist, and in Th ...Show more
Trans-Atlantyk by Witold Gombrowicz
Category: Fiction
A semi-autobiographical, satirical novel that throws into perspective all of Gombrowicz's major literary, philosophical, psychological and social concerns. Throughout the book Gombrowicz ridicules the self-centred pomposity of the Polish community in Argentina.
Trans-Atlantyk by Witold Gombrowicz
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
Considered by many to be among the greatest writers of the past hundred years, Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz explores the modern predicament of exile and displacement in a disintegrating world in his acclaimed classic Trans-Atlantyk. Gombrowicz's most personal novel - and arguably his most iconoclas ...Show more
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