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Gombrowicz, Witold --- Gombrowicz, Witold, --- Gombrovich, Vitolʹd --- Criticism and interpretation.

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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 iconoclastic-Trans-Atlantyk is written in the style of a gaweda, a tale told by the fireside in a language that originated in the seventeenth century. It recounts the often farcical adventures of a penniless young writer stranded in Argentina when the Nazis invade his homeland, and his subsequent "adoption" by the Polish embassy staff and émigré community. Based loosely on Gombrowicz's own experiences as an expatriate, Trans-Atlantyk is steeped in humor and sharply pointed satire, interlaced with dark visions of war and its horrors, that entreats the individual and society in general to rise above the suffocating constraints of nationalistic, sexual, and patriotic mores. The novel's themes are universal and its execution ingenious-a masterwork of twentieth-century literary art from an author whom John Updike called "one of the profoundest of the late moderns."

Polish people --- Polish fiction. --- Poles --- Ethnology --- Polish literature --- History --- Polish people - Argentina - History. --- Gombrowicz, Witold --- Gombrovich, Vitolʹd

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A dark, quasi-detective novel, ""Cosmos ""follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man's attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.Published in 1965, ""Cosmos ""is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run ""pension. ""But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the ""pension, ""then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.""Cosmos ""is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of ""Ferdydurke."".

Polish literature --- Polish fiction. --- Hybrydy (Group of writers) --- Konfederacja Nowego Romantyzmu (Group of writers) --- Skamander (Group of writers) --- Gombrowicz, Witold. --- Gombrovich, Vitolʹd --- Gombrowicz, Witold