Witold Gombrowicz
1) Pornografia
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Language
English
Description
The place is Poland, in the early years of the German occupation. Pornografia's narrator, an author named Witold Gombrowicz, meets a swarthy and overly formal man named Fyderyk at a Warsaw house party, and the two soon become engaged in a business of a dubious (if not downright criminal) nature. When an acquaintance of theirs, a corpulent provincial landowner named Hipolit, requests that they come stay with him to discuss some of his city affairs,...
2) Ferdydurke
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Language
Polish
Description
Darkly humorous story about a writer who is transformed from a man into a teenage boy.
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Series
Kolekcja Gazety Wyborczej. XX wiek volume 38
Language
Polish
Description
A novel about Poles living in Argentina.
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Language
English
Description
"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 The Possessed, he demonstrates his playful brilliance and astonishing range by using the familiar tropes of the Gothic novel to produce a darkly funny...
9) Pornografia
Author
Language
Polish
Description
Two middle-aged men play to convince a sixteen-year-old daughter of their friend, Henia, and a boy, Karol, to fall in love. Quiet and perfunctory, Karol is unaware of their schemes, and Henia's fiance also fails to catch on, with tragic consequences. As the two gentlemen scheme, Germans fight with the Polish resistance in the woods nearby.
13) Cosmos
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Français
Description
Witold has just failed the bar exam, his partner Fuchs has just recently quit his job and now they are staying at a so-called family guesthouse. It's when they discover a bird hung in the woods near the house that they become concerned with their safety. After, they find a piece of wood just as they had found the bird. They receive another omen in the form of forewarning signs on their ceiling and in the garden. What will happen next as Witold falls...