Cosmos (Hardcover)

By Witold Gombrowicz, Danuta Borchardt (Translator)

Yale University Press, 9780300108484, 208pp.

Publication Date: October 1, 2005

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Description

Within the genre of crime fiction, Gombrowicz explores the angst of human existence



About the Author

Witold Gombrowicz wrote three other novels, "Trans-Atlantyk, Pornografia, "and "Ferdydurke, "which, together with his plays and his three-volume "Diary, "have been translated into more than thirty languages.


Praise For Cosmos…

“Borchardt’s graceful, powerful, and inventive translation is a great gift to all lovers of Witold Gombrowicz’s quirky prose.”—Jaroslaw Anders


-Jaroslaw Anders

Praise for Ferdydurke:
“This promises to be, at last, the English translation of Ferdydurke that we have all been waiting for.”—Stanislaw Baranczak, Harvard University

-Stanislaw Baranczak

Praise for Ferdydurke:
“Extravagant, brilliant, disturbing, brave, funny, wonderful. . . . Long live its sublime mockery.”—Susan Sontag

-Susan Sontag

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