Cosmos and Pornografia: Two Novels

Name: Cosmos and Pornografia: Two Novels
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Witold Gombrowicz
ISBN: 9780802151599

Witold Gombrowicz

23/03/1994
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Cosmos and Pornografia: Two Novels par Witold Gombrowicz

Résumé

Here are two major works by the famed Polish novelist and dramatist Witold Gombrowicz. The first, Cosmos, a metaphysical thriller, revolves around an absurd investigation. It is set in provincial Poland and narrated by a seedy, pathetic, and witty student, who is charming and appalling by turns, and whose voice is dense with the richly palpable description that characterizes Gombrowicz's writing. The second, Pornografia, explores the sinister effect the young can have on the old. To serve their own secret eroticism, two aging intellectuals encourage a young couple to commit murder. Although the adolescents are the weapons used to commit the crime, the four become conspirators before the deed is done.