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13 reviews
Witold Gombrowicz, Susan Sontag

Yale University Press, 2000

Linguistic archetypes and immaturity
"Ferdydurke" by Witold Gombrowicz has finally been properly translated into English. Not that this is an event worth mentioning in general, but the point to be made is that the world of translation offers room for all kinds of mischief and sloppiness. Who would have thought that it were perfectly acceptable for publishers to allow translation from a second, and not native tongue? Imagine, for ...

A Kind of Testament

2 reviews
Witold Gombrowicz

Dalkey Archive Pr, 2007

Gombrowicz 101
Kind of Testament is a terrific snapshot of the force behind Gombrowicz's writing. Through his brief biographical narrative we get insight into what ultimately shaped his views on writing, art, politics, religion, and so forth. This wonderful introduction into the Gombrowicz philosophy is dripping with his talent for prose; the sardonic wit, the sarcasm, and the passion for his craft. I choose ...

Die Besessenen.
Witold Gombrowicz

DTV Deutscher Taschenbuch, 1992

A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes

2 reviews
Witold Gombrowicz

Yale University Press, 2007

Brevity without sacrificing depth
I stumbled upon this book, upon Gombrowicz, really, purely by chance. The man was a true artist and genius--if you like fiction, read Cosmos; one of the best novels I have read recently. I would only recommend his Guide to Philosophy, though, to those with either a deep interest in Gombrowicz or a deep interest in Continental philosophy. I, being a student of philosophy, really loved this ...

Trans-Atlantyk

9 reviews
Witold Gombrowicz

Yale University Press, 1995

Roar with laughter: you can do it
Yale University Press did a fine job of promoting Witold Gombrowicz with its anachronistic translation by Carolyn French and Nina Karsov of TRANS-ATLANTYK, published in 1994. The Introduction by Stanislaw Baranczak describes how Witold Gombrowicz arrived in Buenos Aires on August 21, 1939, eleven days before the Nazi invasion of Poland presented Gombrowicz with the fundamental dilemma of human ...

5 reviews
Witold Gombrowicz

Yale University Press, 2005

poetry, philosophy, psychology
I read this book a few months ago ... but decided to write a few lines about it only now, after i finished Joseph Roth's "The Radetzky March". "Cosmos" can be considered a sequel in a sense to "The Radetzky March", even though the books have, on the surface, pretty much nothing in common. "The Radetzky March" is written about the decline and fall of Austro-Hungarian empire, the whole pre-modern ...

Cosmos and Pornografia: Two Novels

10 reviews
Witold Gombrowicz

Grove Press, 1994

For example
I'm joining the chorus of those asking for a direct translation. Let me quote the opening paragraph of the novel I translated from the original as a quick test: "But let me tell you another, even more curious adventure... Sweat, Fuks walks on, me behind him, trouser-legs, heels, sand, we plod on, plod on, earth, ruts, clod, glitter from glassy pebbles, glare, the heat buzzes, shimmering, ...

Possessed: The Secret of Myslotch

3 reviews
Witold Gombrowicz

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2000

Gothic Gombrowicz
This is a delightful pre-war Gombrowicz concoction. Underneath the Gothic exterior, those who have read his other novels will find familiar themes, such as the attraction and conflict between youth and maturity. In my opinion, Pornographia is the most "perfect" of the novels, but this one is the most delightful, dispite its minor flaws. It was written for publication in serial form in a ...

Three Plays: Princess Ivona, the Marriage and Operetta
Witold Gombrowicz

Marion Boyars, 1998

Unersättlichkeit
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

R. Piper & Co., 1966

Novelist, dramatist, painter, poet, photographer, Witkiewicz, aka Witkacy (1885-1939) was the leading member of Poland's poetic and artistic avantgarde. This is theGerman translation of Nienasycenie (Engl. Insatiability), his major novel.

Diary Volume 3 (Diary)

3 reviews
Witold Gombrowicz

Northwestern University Press, 1993

Gombrowicz lost in translation
It would be superfluous to praise Gombrowicz's Diary. It is one of the landmarks of European avangarde literature of the 20th century... The French and German translations made Gombrowicz well-known outside Poland. The Vallee perfectible translation, however, not only fails to reflect the most sensitive nuances of the original, but, also commits a lot of material mistakes, too many to quote ...

3 reviews
Witold Gombrowicz

Archipelago Books, 2006

Like a fine punch; you might like other parts better
This 2004 translation from the Polish by Bill Johnston (Director of the Polish Studies Center at Indiana University) of the early stories of Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) begins with seven stories written between 1926 and 1932, which were originally published in 1933. The other stories appeared in a collection published in Krakow in 1957. After a scholarly edition appeared in 2002, as the first ...

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