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Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Marian Gombrowicz was a Polish writer and playwright. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist flavor. In 1937, he published his first novel, Ferdydurke, which presented many of his usual themes: problems of immaturity and youth, creation of identity in interactions with others, and an ironic, critical examination of…
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culture · Polish writer (1904–1969) · writer · playwright · novelist · diarist · poet lawyer · essayist · jurist · short story writer · also Witold Gombrowicz, Gombrowicz
Born 4 August 1904 · Died 24 July 1969 · Q275175
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
nytimes.com: Book Review: ‘The Possessed,’ by Witold Gombrowicz
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2023· 1 entry
The Financial Times: The Possessed — Witold Gombrowicz’s seriously good comic novel
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2020· 1 entry
culture.pl: Ferdydurke – Witold Gombrowicz
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2010· 2 entries
The Washington Post: Witold Gombrowicz, getting seriously down and dirty
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At the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria, on 19 February
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1997· 1 entry
The film follows the patients and staff as they stage a production of Gombrowicz's Operette
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1969· 8 entries
Died 1969-07-24.
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“Ach, przybądź nareszcie – śmierci!”
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And are, according to the Paris Review, "widely considered his masterpiece", while Cosmos is considered, according to The New Yorker, "his most accomplished novel"
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“(…) nie można być wiecznie w rozgrzeszającym stanie namiętności.”
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“(…) miłość i nienawiść są dwoma obliczami tego samego.”
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“Miłość! – cóż to za czarowny, niepojęty bezsens.”
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“Kobiety nie lubią może ostateczności w życiu zewnętrznym – ale wewnętrznie każdą sytuację potrafią wyczerpać do dna, jeżeli chcą.”
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“Jeśli kto kocha tylko piękno i czystość, to kocha zaledwie połowę istoty.”
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Formentor (1967).
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1964· 2 entries
Moved to the Côte d'Azur in the south of France with Labrosse, whom he employed as his secretary
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And spent three months in Royaumont Abbey, near Paris, where he met Rita Labrosse, a Canadian from Montreal who studied contemporary literature
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1950· 1 entry
Started exchanging letters with Jerzy Giedroyc, and in 1951 he began to publish work in the Parisian journal Culture, in which fragments of Dziennik (Diaries) appeared in 1953
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1947· 1 entry
A Spanish translation of Ferdydurke, with the help of friends including Virgilio Piñera
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1941· 1 entry
But was considered unfit for military duties
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1939· 1 entry
Published in installments in two daily newspapers the popular novel Opętani, in which he interlaced the form of the Gothic novel with that of sensational modern romance
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1937· 3 entries
Published his first novel, Ferdydurke, which presented many of his usual themes: problems of immaturity and youth, creation of identity in interactions with others, and an ironic, critical examination of class roles i
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Before Sartre formulated his theory of the regard d'autrui
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“Ferdydurke was published in 1937 before Sartre formulated his theory of the regard d”
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1922· 1 entry
Gombrowicz studied law at Warsaw University, earning a MJur in 1927
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1904· 1 entry
Born 1904-08-04.
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