Cosmos and Pornografia

Name: Cosmos and Pornografia
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ISBN: 9780802151599

ISBN-10: 0802151590

ISBN-13: 9780802151599

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Authors: Witold Gombrowicz

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Here are two major works by the famed Polish novelist and dramatist Witold Gombrowicz. The first, Cosmos, a metaphysical thriller, revolves around an absurd investigation. It is set in provincial Poland and narrated by a seedy, pathetic, and witty student, who is charming and appalling by turns, and whose voice is dense with the richly palpable description that characterizes Gombrowicz's writing. The second, Pornografia, explores the sinister effect the young can have on the old. To serve their own secret eroticism, two aging intellectuals encourage a young couple to commit murder. Although the adolescents are the weapons used to commit the crime, the four become conspirators before the…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/23/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 362
Size: 5.38" wide x 8.25" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969), the single most important Polish prose writer of the 20th century, spent much of his life in France and Argentina (Bacacay was the street he lived on in Buenos Aires). His novels include Ferdydurke, Trans-Atlantyk, Cosmos, and Pornografia. Awarded the Prix Formentor (1967).