Cosmos (ePub)
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
A "creatively captivating and intellectually challenging" existential mystery from the great Polish author-"sly, funny, and . . . lovingly translated" (The New York Times).
Winner of the 1967 International Prize for Literature
Milan Kundera called...
Winner of the 1967 International Prize for Literature
Milan Kundera called...
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A "creatively captivating and intellectually challenging" existential mystery from the great Polish author-"sly, funny, and . . . lovingly translated" (The New York Times).
Winner of the 1967 International Prize for Literature
Milan Kundera called Witold Gombrowicz "one of the great novelists of our century." Now his most famous novel, Cosmos, is available in a critically acclaimed translation by the award-winning translator Danuta Borchardt.
Cosmos is a metaphysical noir thriller narrated by Witold, a seedy, pathetic, and witty student, who is charming and appalling by turns. In need of a quiet place to study, Witold and his melancholy friend Fuks head to a boarding house in the mountains. Along the way, they discover a dead bird hanging from a string. Is this a strange but meaningless occurrence or is it the first clue to a sinister mystery?
As the young men become embroiled in the Chekhovian travails of the family that runs the boarding house, Grombrowicz creates a gripping narrative where the reader questions who is sane and who is safe.
"Probably the most important 20th-century novelist most Western readers have never heard of." -Benjamin Paloff, Words Without Borders
Winner of the 1967 International Prize for Literature
Milan Kundera called Witold Gombrowicz "one of the great novelists of our century." Now his most famous novel, Cosmos, is available in a critically acclaimed translation by the award-winning translator Danuta Borchardt.
Cosmos is a metaphysical noir thriller narrated by Witold, a seedy, pathetic, and witty student, who is charming and appalling by turns. In need of a quiet place to study, Witold and his melancholy friend Fuks head to a boarding house in the mountains. Along the way, they discover a dead bird hanging from a string. Is this a strange but meaningless occurrence or is it the first clue to a sinister mystery?
As the young men become embroiled in the Chekhovian travails of the family that runs the boarding house, Grombrowicz creates a gripping narrative where the reader questions who is sane and who is safe.
"Probably the most important 20th-century novelist most Western readers have never heard of." -Benjamin Paloff, Words Without Borders
Autoren-Porträt von Witold Gombrowicz
The renowned Polish author, Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) lived, virtually unknown, in Argentina, writing novels, stories, and plays for twenty-five years before taking up residence in France. He wrote four novels, Trans-Atlantyk, Cosmos, Pornografia, and Ferdydurke, which, together with his plays and his three-volume Diary, have been translated into more than thirty languages.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Witold Gombrowicz
- 2011, 208 Seiten, Englisch
- Übersetzer: Danuta Borchardt
- Verlag: Grove Press
- ISBN-10: 0802195261
- ISBN-13: 9780802195265
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2011
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“A master of verbal burlesque, a connoisseur of psychological blackmail, Gombrowicz is one of the profoundest late moderns, with one of the lightest touches.” —John Updike“Cosmos is a vicious and uncompromised little gem of the obscene.” —Adam Novy, The Believer
“Borchardt’s graceful, powerful, and inventive translation is a great gift to all lovers of Witold Gombrowicz’s quirky prose.” —Jaroslaw Anders
“[Cosmos] will hold special appeal for fans of Camus’ The Stranger. In this deft new translation, Cosmos . . . reveals itself as a challenging but important work.” —Frank Sennett, Booklist (starred review)
“Cosmos is a compulsively unsettling philosophical drama veiled as a quotidian mystery. . . . Borchardt’s new English translation conveys a world wrought with an interconnectedness, or perceived interconnectedness, that struggles to understand meaningfully a series of events that defy logical association.” —David Thomas Holmberg, Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature
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