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Author : Allen James Kuharski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Theatre of Witold Gombrowicz written by Allen James Kuharski and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Witold Gombrowicz
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 1564784762
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)
Download or read book A Kind of Testament written by Witold Gombrowicz and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kind of Testament is part autobiography and part justification of the life's work of one of Poland's most important novelists and playwrights. Written in France in 1968, this personal testimony is more than just a life history or a critique of his work. A Kind of Testament stands as a testament to how Gombrowicz came to be the person and writer that he was and overlap between the two.
Author : Witold Gombrowicz
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300164653
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Ferdydurke written by Witold Gombrowicz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bitterly funny novel by the renowned Polish author Witold Gombrowicz, a writer finds himself tossed into a chaotic world of schoolboys by a diabolical professor who wishes to reduce him to childishness. Originally published in Poland in 1937, Ferdydurke became an instant literary sensation and catapulted the young author to fame. Deemed scandalous and subversive by Nazis, Stalinists, and the Polish Communist regime in turn, the novel (as well as all of Gombrowicz's other works) was officially banned in Poland for decades. It has nonetheless remained one of the most influential works of twentieth-century European literature. Ferdydurke is translated here directly from the Polish for the first time. Danuta Borchardt deftly captures Gombrowicz's playful and idiosyncratic style, and she allows English speakers to experience fully the masterpiece of a writer whom Milan Kundera describes as “one of the great novelists of our century.”
Author : Witold Gombrowicz
Publisher : London : Calder & Boyars
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Princess Ivona written by Witold Gombrowicz and published by London : Calder & Boyars. This book was released on 1969 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncourtly and unsocial behaviour by the prince's fiancee leads to her disfavour and the royal family's plots to murder her.
Author : Witold Gombrowicz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ivona, Princess of Burgundia written by Witold Gombrowicz and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play follows the impetuous Prince Philip, heir to the throne. Apparently on a lark, he decides to engage himself to the ugliest girl in the kingdom. He seems to enjoy the consternation it creates in his parents, King Ignatius & Queen Margaret, and the court. Unfortunately, as the charm of the engagement wears off, the taciturn Ivona wears on him, changing his whimsical affections. Philip berates and insults the impassive Ivona who appears to fall in love with Philip. The play concludes with each royal plotting Ivona's death. The superficiality and unvarnished cruelty of the court makes the play fly by in hilarious fashion.
Author : Mo Yan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857422217
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (222 download)
Download or read book Pow! written by Mo Yan and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature], "a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama--in which nearly everyone dies--unfurls ... As his dual narratives merge and feather into one another, each informing and illuminating the other, Mo Yan probes the character and lifestyle of modern China."--Publisher's description.
Author : Witold Gombrowicz
Publisher : London : Calder & Boyars
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pornografia written by Witold Gombrowicz and published by London : Calder & Boyars. This book was released on 1966 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pierre de Marivaux
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849439605
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)
Download or read book The Island of Slaves written by Pierre de Marivaux and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2002-04-22 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will become of us? Four people, the sole survivors of a shipwreck, crawl out of the sea. Two of them are masters, and two of them are servants; and all four are about to discover what life feels like when the boot is on the other foot. Marivaux's potent mix of laughter, emotion and theatrical game-playing makes him one of the most surprising and most modern of all classic playwrights. Neil Bartlett has adapted this brilliant comedy of role-swapping and redemption, which premiered at the Lyric Hammersmith in April 2002. Cast size: 4
Author : John Hawkes
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200653
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Lime Twig written by John Hawkes and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But it would be unfair to the reader to reveal what happens when a gang of professional crooks gets wind of the scheme and moves to muscle in on this bettors' dream of a long-odds situation. Worked out with all the meticulous detail, terror, and suspense of a nightmare, the tale is, on one level, comparable to a Graham Greene thriller; on another, it explores a group of people, their relationships fears, and loves. For as Leslie A. Fiedler says in his introduction, "John Hawkes.. . makes terror rather than love the center of his work, knowing all the while, of course, that there can be no terror without the hope for love and love's defeat . . . ."
Author : Jack J. B. Hutchens
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793605041
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Queer Transgressions in Twentieth-Century Polish Fiction written by Jack J. B. Hutchens and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the twentieth century in Poland various ideologies attempted to keep queer voices silent—whether those ideologies were fascist, communist, Catholic, or neo-liberal. Despite these pressures, there existed a vibrant, transgressive trend within Polish literature that subverted such silencing. This book provides in-depth textual analyses of several of those texts, covering nearly every decade of the last century, and includes authors such as Witold Gombrowicz, Marian Pankowski, and Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Jack J. B. Hutchens demonstrates the subversive power of each work, showing that through their transgressions they help to undermine nationalist and homophobic ideologies that are still at play in Poland today. Hutchens argues that the transgressive reading of Polish literature can challenge the many binaries on which conservative, heteronormative ideology depends in order to maintain its cultural hegemony.
Author : Ewa P?onowska Ziarek
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791436431
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Gombrowicz's Grimaces written by Ewa P?onowska Ziarek and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Gombrowicz's modernist aesthetics in the context of his critique of nationalism, his exploration of queer eroticism, and his interest in hybrid and subaltern identities.
Author : Tamara Trojanowska
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442650184
Total Pages : 853 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Being Poland written by Tamara Trojanowska and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland's return to independence. Conceived to address the lack of critical scholarship on Poland's cultural restoration, Being Poland illuminates the continuities, paradoxes, and contradictions of Poland's modern and contemporary cultural practices, and challenges the narrative typically prescribed to Polish literature and film. Reflecting the radical changes, rifts, and restorations that swept through Poland in this period, Polish literature and film reveal a multitude of perspectives. Addressing romantic perceptions of the Polish immigrant, the politics of post-war cinema, poetry, and mass media, Being Poland is a comprehensive reference work written with the intention of exposing an international audience to the explosion of Polish literature and film that emerged in the twentieth century.
Author : Witold Gombrowicz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300184457
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Polish Memories written by Witold Gombrowicz and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Witold Gombrowicz's unique, idiosyncratic writings include a three-volume Diary, this voluminous document offers few facts about his early life in Poland before his books were banned there and he went into voluntary exile. Polish Memories--a series of autobiographical sketches Gombrowicz composed for Radio Free Europe during his years in Argentina in the late 1950s--fills the gap in our knowledge. Written in a straightforward way without his famous linguistic inventions, the book presents an engaging account of Gombrowicz's childhood, youth, literary beginnings, and fellow writers in interwar Poland and reveals how these experiences and individuals shaped his seemingly outlandish concepts about the self, culture, art, and society. In addition, the book helps readers understand the numerous autobiographical allusions in his fiction and brings a new level of understanding and appreciation to his life and work.
Author : Aleksandra Konarzewska
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040112439
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Gombrowicz written by Aleksandra Konarzewska and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-12 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a short introduction to Witold Gombrowicz’s life and work as one of the most prominent figures in twentieth-century literature and theater, providing intertextual perspectives that allow readers to analyze his short stories, plays, and novels in broad contexts. Gombrowicz (1904–1969) was a writer and philosopher whose experimental literary works belong to the stream of European existentialism and simultaneously mark the birth of postmodernism. In Gombrowicz’s grotesque universe, there is no separation between literature, biography, sexuality, and philosophy. His novels, including Ferdydurke, Trans-Atlantyk, and Pornography, contain autobiographical elements, whereas in his renowned Diary, daily life becomes an object of sophisticated philosophical reflection that links introspection with humor and a gift for observation. Gombrowicz: An Introduction is an approachable guide for students and instructors of Slavic literature and culture, comparative literature, philosophy, and theater studies.
Author : Dan Fox
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 156689428X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Pretentiousness written by Dan Fox and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pretentiousness is the engine oil of culture; the essential lubricant in the development of all arts, high, low, or middle.
Author : Dorota Maslowska
Publisher : Oberon Books
ISBN 13 : 9781840028461
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (284 download)
Download or read book A Couple of Poor Polish-speaking Romanians written by Dorota Maslowska and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maslowska is a phenomenon in Poland. Her first best-selling novel earned her acclaim at just 18.
Author : Alicia Borinsky
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595341137
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book One-Way Tickets written by Alicia Borinsky and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In One-Way Tickets, Borinsky offers up a splendid tour across 20th-century literatures, providing a literary travelogue to writers and artists in exile. She describes their challenges in adjusting to new homelands, issues of identity and language, and the brilliant works produced under the discomforts and stresses of belonging nowhere. Speaking with the authority of first-hand experience, Borinsky relates the story of her own family—Eastern European Jews, with one-way tickets to Buenos Aires, refugees from the countries that “spat them out and massacred those who stayed on.” Borinksy herself becomes an exile, fleeing Argentina after the take-over of a bloody military dictatorship. She understood, then, her grandfather’s lessons: “There’s nothing like languages to save your life, open your mind, speed you away from persecution.” As a writer of poetry, fiction, and essays, the author also knows intimately the struggles of writing from between worlds, between languages. In these pages, we encounter Russian Vladimir Nabokov, writing in English in the United States; Argentine writer Julio Cortázar in Paris; Polish writer, Witold Gombrowicz in Buenos Aires; Alejandra Pizarnik, Argentine writer for whom exile is a state of mind; Jorge Luis Borges, labyrinthine traveler in time and space; Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Jewish writer in New York driven from Poland by the Nazis; Latino writers Oscar Hijuelos, Cristina Garcia, and Junot Diaz; and Clarice Lispector, transplanted from Ukraine, to Brazil, to Europe, and the United States. Not surprisingly, these charismatic and artistic people, as well as many others in Borinsky’s nearly encyclopedic associations, inhabit equally intriguing circles. She introduces us to a wide range of friends and lovers, mentors and detractors, compatriots and hosts. We come away with a terrific breadth of knowledge of 20th-century literature and culture in exile—its uneasy obsessions, its difficult peace, its hard-won success.
