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Witold Gombrowicz

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Gombrowicz, Witold 

Born Aug. 4, 1904, in Malo-szyce, near Opatów. Polish writer.

Gombrowicz began publishing in the I930’s. The novella Ferdydurke (1938). in which Gombrowicz has clearly broken with the realistic tradition, is well known. Psychological observations are presented on a fantastic, grotesque plane. The portrayal of stereotypes of the behavior and thought of a particular milieu (aristocracy, petite bourgeoisie, school) develops into a conception of the unnatural quality of human relations in general and of the inevitability of all kinds of “masks” and “poses” and pessimistically denies reality. After World War II. Gombrowicz chose to remain an émigré and became an ardent opponent of the People’s Poland.

WORKS

Ferdydurke. Warsaw, 1957.

REFERENCE

Sandauer, A. Dla każdego coś przykrego. Krakow. 1966.

B. F. STAKHEEV



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November 3: Play reading--"Ivana, Princess of Burgundia" by Witold Gombrowicz at 20:00 in the Eglise Anglaise November 10-14: Stage production of "It Runs in the Family" by Ray Cooney, Theatre de Terre Sainte in Coppet November 16-17: Auditions for the March stage production "Fallen Angels" by Noel Coward, at the College des Coudriers Info: www.
95 Paperback Dalkey archive scholarly series PG3335 Oklot (Slavic languages, Brown University) explores the concepts of being and nothingness particularly in the works of Russian author Nicholai Gogol and Polish author Witold Gombrowicz.
Thirlwell’s book comes from the writers he quotes from and comments on—among them Laurence Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Chekhov, Joyce, Kafka, Witold Gombrowicz and Nabokov, who declared that masterpieces are made of "dazzling combinations of drab parts.
 
 
 
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