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Diary
Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 1953, still living as an expatriate in Argentina, he began his Diary with one of literature's most memorable openings:
"Monday
Me.
Tuesday
Me.
Wednesday
Me.
Thursday
Me."
Gombrowicz's Diary grew into a vast collection of essays, short notes, polemics, and confessions on myriad subjects--from political events to literature to the certainty of death. Not a traditional journal, Diary is instead the commentary of a brilliant and restless mind. Widely regarded as a masterpiece, this brilliant work compelled Gombrowicz's attention for a decade and a half until he penned his final entry in France, shortly before his death in 1969.
Long out of print in English, Diary is now presented in a convenient single volume featuring a new preface by Rita Gombrowicz, the author's widow and literary executor. This edition also includes ten previously unpublished pages from the 1969 portion of the diary.
Book Details
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publish Date: Jun 19th, 2012
- Pages: 800
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.76in - 6.06in - 2.10in - 2.08lb
- EAN: 9780300118063
- Categories: • Literary Figures
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rosenovick(.)com on the Other App | lastsilverdrops on panic! at the discord
"a child, yes, but one that has come to know and has exhausted all the possibilities of adult seriousness" (witold gombrowicz, diary)
Alina Stefanescu is a poet and book reviewer.
The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough....our strong point would be that we are representatives of a brutalized culture, that is, a culture that is close to life. - Witold Gombrowicz, Diary https://t.co/oHtQemDNx4
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Witold Gombrowicz in his Diary: “The most important, most extreme, and most incurable dispute is that waged in us by two of our most basic strivings: the one that desires form, shape, definition and the other, which protests against shape, and does not want form. [+]
Praise for this book
"A heroic translation. . . . English-speaking readers can finally experience the Diary as Gombrowicz intended it--as a single, coherent work . . . his major creative endeavor."--Ruth Franklin, New Yorker
"Having this book in my hands, I felt a joy at the thought that strong personalities, like that of Gombrowicz, sooner or later find recognition thanks to the sheer intensity of their existence."--Czeslaw Milosz, New York Times
"If ever a life demanded a diary, this was one."--Paul West, Washington Post
"Yale University Press by reprinting in a beautiful fat paperback an updated, complete edition of the Diaries of Witold Gombrowicz has done a singular important, essential and remarkable job."--Thomas McGonigle, ABC of Reading
"Widely considered the Polish author's masterpiece . . . the Diary lacks for nothing: history, politics, philosophy, literature, art, music, love, death, humor, communism, Poland, Europe, writing--everything is there."--Paris Review Daily
"The spiky brilliance and episodes of vivid experience that share the pages of the Diary with essay-length reflections give the collection as a whole a restive, fugitive rhythm. . . . A provocative experience."--Eric Banks, Bookforum
What people are saying
rosenovick(.)com on the Other App | lastsilverdrops on panic! at the discord
"a child, yes, but one that has come to know and has exhausted all the possibilities of adult seriousness" (witold gombrowicz, diary)
Alina Stefanescu is a poet and book reviewer.
The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough....our strong point would be that we are representatives of a brutalized culture, that is, a culture that is close to life. - Witold Gombrowicz, Diary https://t.co/oHtQemDNx4