Cosmos Witold Gombrowicz and Danuta Borchardt Book
by Witold Gombrowicz and Danuta Borchardt
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i found this by accident ,so i read "pornography" too ,i love this kind of stuff ,reminds me of Ernesto Sabato
Oh, Gombrowicz was a Polish writer and I'm a Pole, studied Polish literature in a primary as well as secondary school but they never told us that he wrote also children's books...
You learn all you life...
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Storyline
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.
Details
- Number of Pages: 208 pages
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publish Date: Oct 9, 2005
- Price: $28.00
- ASIN: 0300108486
- ISBN: 0300108486
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