Ebook {Epub PDF} Bacacay by Witold Gombrowicz

 · Luego del rescate de “Ferdydurke”, la novela central del polaco Witold Gombrowicz, la editorial argentina que se ha propuesto publicar la totalidad de su obra prosigue con su propósito al reeditar “Bacacay”, cuentos escritos en su gran mayoría en la década de y que el propio autor recopilara en los años ’Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.  · Gombrowicz’s extravagant, gleefully anarchic gifts explode on every page of his early collection Bacacay. And the wit and verve Bill Johnston brings to his daunting task produce a translatorly tour de force—the most riotously readable English Gombrowicz yet. —Clare Cavanagh One of the great novelists of our century. —Milan KunderaISBN Now, in Bacacay, besides this form, Gombrowicz introduces another device. He employs his unsettling method on works of the mass cultural genres, such as detective fiction and nautical yarns. It could be said that such works are not so provocative in that these genres by definition already contain disturbing factors, from poisonings to sea serpents.

Witold Gombrowicz: Gombrowicz. Trans-Atlantyk is a novel by the Polish author Witold Gombrowicz, originally published in The history of Wsola and the estate that became the property of the Gombrowicz family dates back at least to the the 15th century and is connected with members of the Kochanowski dynasty, from whom the modern literary Polish. Book Description. First published in in Poland, Bacacay is a collection of twelve short stories by Witold Gombrowicz (), one of the major European literary figures of the 20th century. Stunningly original in both style and content, these stories are often hilarious yet with an undercurrent of profound moral disquiet and horror when the respectable turns slowly but inexorably into. Bacacay - Kindle edition by Gombrowicz, Witold, Johnston, Bill. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Bacacay.

Conformity and logical coherence are rudely deranged in a dozen early tales from Poland’s urbane misanthrope (–69). As in Gombrowicz’s airily bizarre novels (Ferdydurke, Cosmos, Pornografia, etc.), lucid, concise narratives are weighted with outrageous premises and absurd developments that recall the work of Kafka, Beckett, Bruno Schulz, and (especially) Ionesco. Gombrowicz’s extravagant, gleefully anarchic gifts explode on every page of his early collection Bacacay. And the wit and verve Bill Johnston brings to his daunting task produce a translatorly tour de force—the most riotously readable English Gombrowicz yet. —Clare Cavanagh One of the great novelists of our century. —Milan Kundera. Witold Gombrowicz () is considered the most remarkable Polish prose writer of the 20th century. He is the author of Ferdydurke, Trans-Atlantyk, Pornografia, and Cosmos, as well as plays, stories, and his Diary. Gombrowicz lived in Buenos Aires for over twenty years and spent his last in France.