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. Thursday Me."
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...
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 ...
A brilliant, semiautobiographical satirical novel from one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century Polish literature, now in a new English translation
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...
A brilliant, semiautobiographical satirical novel from one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century Polish literature, now in a new English tra...
Witold, mladý hrdina románu a autorův jmenovec, prchá z dusné rodinné atmosféry ve Varšavě do podtatranského městečka Zakopané a společně s přítelem Fuksem si najmou pokoj v malém rodinném penzionu. Vedro, nuda, erotické snění o dceři domácích a hlavně nález oběšeného vrabce odstartují ve Witoldovi bouři myšlenek, která ho dovede ke snaze vybudovat si vlastní systém, pokusit se najít řád v chaosu skutečnosti, vytvořit si svůj jedinečný kosmos ve světě, ve kterém staré už neplatí a nové ještě nenastalo. Slavný román pro Činohru ND...
Witold, mladý hrdina románu a autorův jmenovec, prchá z dusné rodinné atmosféry ve Varšavě do podtatranského městečka Zakopané a společn...
