Cosmos

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Price
$17.00  $15.81
Publisher
Grove Press
Publish Date
Pages
208
Dimensions
5.58 X 8.25 X 0.57 inches | 0.42 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780802145628
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About the Author
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.

Reviews
"[A] sly, funny, absorbing fourth novel and lovingly translated by Danuta Borchardt" --Neil Gordon, The New York Times Book Review

"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 on Cosmos

"[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)

"Probably the most important 20th-century novelist most Western readers have never heard of." --Benjamin Paloff, Words Without Borders

"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