I used to think that I didn't like short stories. I thought they would leave me unsatisfied , without any time to develop neither story nor characters. Akutagawa made me doubt my attitude, Borges changed my mind, and now, Gombrowicz has sealed the deal. After having read a perfectly measured stor...
'There is nothing that the mature hate more, there is nothing that disgusts them more, than immaturity' writes Gombrowicz in this comic masterpiece of Polish literature. Be prepared to embrace your immaturity as Gombrowicz attacks so-called 'maturity' and exposes it as a fraud in this story about...
Literally, A 'Self-Help' Book Witold Gombrowicz’s ‘Cours de philosophie en six heures un quart” began as lectures to his wife and his good friend Dominique de Roux. Apparently, in a fit of depression, Gombrowicz once asked de Roux to get him a gun or some poison so that he could kill himself.De R...
Let me give some advice: If you, your spouse, and your teenage farmhand ever find yourself tending a tract of land in the country, beware of old dudes from the city. A brief stay at your farmhouse may be OK, but if those fellows start to linger, expect mischief. Expect creepy machinations. If you...