Witold gombrowicz ferdydurke
Witold gombrowicz ferdydurke
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Ferdydurke
1937 novel by Witold Gombrowicz
Ferdydurke is a novel by the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz, published in 1937. It was his first and most controversial novel.[1]
The book has been described as a "cult novel".[2]
Gombrowicz himself wrote of his novel that it is not "...
a satire on some social class, nor a nihilistic attack on culture...
Witold gombrowicz quotes
We live in an era of violent changes, of accelerated development, in which settled forms are breaking under life's pressure... The need to find a form for what is yet immature, uncrystalized and underdeveloped, as well as the groan at the impossibility of such a postulate – this is the chief excitement of my book."[3]
Translations
The first translation of the novel, to Spanish, published in Buenos Aires in 1947, was done by Gombrowicz himself.
A translation committee presided over by the Cuban writer Virgilio Piñera helped him in this endeavor, since Gombrowicz felt that he did not know the la