Think Kafka translated by Groucho Marx, with commentaries.' Kirkus Reviews 'The author's exuberant humor, suggesting the absurdist drama of Eugene Ionesco, if not the short fiction of Franz Kafka, is readily apparent in this new translation. Condition: Red publishers cloth, fine, in dust jacket with some soiling and a closed short tear and. I would submit there is simply not enough of Gombrowicz in this effort, or a too-young edition of the man. European literature, but while its innovative form engages the intellect it doesn't go beyond to plumb any depths of human experience.

Ferdydurke Adapted from the novel by Witold Gombrowicz by Teatr Provisorium & Kompania Teatr. ' Ferdydurke, among its centrifugal charms, includes some of the truest and funniest literary satire in print.'John Updike 'A wonderfully subversive, self-absorbed, hilarious book. 'Ferdydurke' is a modernist satire to be read by serious students of 20th c. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 24.2 (2002) 69-96. It has nonetheless remained one of the most influential works of twentieth-century European literature.

Originally published in Poland in 1937, Ferdydurkewas deemed scandalous and subversive by Nazis, Stalinists, and the Polish Communist regime in turn and was officially banned in Poland for decades. Two important scenes include the raping of Siphon the idealist’s ears, and the duel of grimaces between Siphon and Mientus, the realist.In this bitterly funny novel 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. Joey first finds himself in a caricature of a school, where the ridiculous Professor Pimko tries to overpower the pubescent impulses of his students and their disinterest in their studies. 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. Everyone treats him as a greenhorn, easily infantilized and ridiculed. One morning, Joey, an immature thirty-something, wakes up in the body of an adolescent schoolboy. In this bitterly funny novel a writer finds himself tossed into a chaotic world of schoolboys by a diabolical professor who wishes to reduce him to. School “To run meant not only running from school but, first and foremost, running from oneself, oh, to run from oneself, from the sniveling brat into which Pimko had turned me, abandon the brat, be the man I once was!” L’action de Ferdydurke is set in the early 1930s in Warsaw, in a manor in the Polish countryside. It represents a satire of three milieus: school, the bourgeoisie, and the landed gentry. “Look-that basic body part, the tame and kindly pupa is the basis, therefore it is the from the pupa that all basis begins.”

Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz