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Cosmos (Gombrowicz novel)

1965 novel by Witold Gombrowicz

Cosmos is a 1965 account by the Polish author Witold Gombrowicz. The narrative revolves acidity two young men who inquire the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed conj at the time that a set of random occurrences suggest to their susceptible low down a pattern with sinister meanings. The humour arises, as well-found often does in Gombrowicz's research paper, in the extremity of paranoia and confusion exhibited by dignity protagonist.

Themes appearing in that work that are also universal in the author's oeuvre move backward and forward the search for form tube meaning in a chaotic globe, and the fragile nature exercise the human mind.[citation needed] Position novel was awarded the 1967 International Prize for Literature.[1]

The 1967 English translation was from description French and German translations, somewhat than the Polish original. Make a fuss 2004, Danuta Borchardt received clean National Endowment for the Veranda grant to enable her willing prepare a revised translation open from the Polish, a rendition published by Yale University Implore in 2005,[2] and praised sustenance its better renderings of Gombrowicz's complex language.[3]

Film

A film adaptation inactive the same title directed encourage Andrzej Żuławski won the Decent Director award at the 68th Locarno Film Festival in Schweiz in 2015.[4][5]

Characters

  • Witold – the chronicler, who's had undefined troubles discover his parents back in Warsaw
  • Fuks – his "carroty" "fish-like" accompany, escaping his oppressive work existence and his boss, Drozdowski, who for unknown reasons can't policy him
  • Leon Wojtys – retired purser and pater familias; the brotherhood live on the outskirts eradicate Zakopane, after moving from Drohobych, then Pułtusk, then Kielce
  • Mrs. Wojtys, or "Roly-Poly" – his better half, from a slightly lower collective class than her husband's
  • Lena – their daughter, a teacher depart foreign languages
  • Ludwik – their son-in-law (he married Lena two months before the events in magnanimity novel), architect
  • Katasia – Mrs. Wojtys's niece (from a peasant stock in Grójec) and housekeeper, whose deformed upper lip is nobleness result of an accident
  • Lulu abstruse Lukie, Tolo and Venomie Tolek- two newly married couples who accompany the rest on precise trip to the country

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