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Polish Memories (Hardcover)

by Witold Gombrowicz (Author), Bill Johnston (Translator)
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  • Hardcover: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press; 1 edition (Sep 10 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0300104103
  • ISBN-13: 978-0300104103
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13.2 x 2 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 318 g
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  • Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #462,605 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"A useful companion to Gombrowicz's much more complex Diary, elucidating some of his more confounding ideas and locating them in their social and historical context. The book will serve as an introduction to an assemblage of major and minor literary figures, who jointly created the creative atmosphere of those interwar years."—Jaroslaw Anders, author of Eastern European Literature in the Twentieth Century


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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.


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