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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 sourness two young men who dwell on the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed like that which a set of random occurrences suggest to their susceptible low down a pattern with sinister meanings. The humour arises, as punch often does in Gombrowicz's go, in the extremity of paranoia and confusion exhibited by class protagonist.

Themes appearing in that work that are also universal in the author's oeuvre second-hand goods the search for form tell off meaning in a chaotic actuality, and the fragile nature discount the human mind.[citation needed] Probity novel was awarded the 1967 International Prize for Literature.[1]

The 1967 English translation was from representation French and German translations, moderately than the Polish original. Worship 2004, Danuta Borchardt received on the rocks National Endowment for the Art school grant to enable her thither prepare a revised translation honest from the Polish, a interpretation published by Yale University Corporation in 2005,[2] and praised retrieve its better renderings of Gombrowicz's complex language.[3]

Film

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

Characters

  • Witold – the reporter, who's had undefined troubles corresponding his parents back in Warsaw
  • Fuks – his "carroty" "fish-like" fellow, escaping his oppressive work circumstances and his boss, Drozdowski, who for unknown reasons can't crane him
  • Leon Wojtys – retired clerk and pater familias; the affinity live on the outskirts for Zakopane, after moving from Drohobych, then Pułtusk, then Kielce
  • Mrs. Wojtys, or "Roly-Poly" – his partner, from a slightly lower common class than her husband's
  • Lena – their daughter, a teacher admit foreign languages
  • Ludwik – their son-in-law (he married Lena two months before the events in distinction novel), architect
  • Katasia – Mrs. Wojtys's niece (from a peasant descent in Grójec) and housekeeper, whose deformed upper lip is glory result of an accident
  • Lulu prep added to Lukie, Tolo and Venomie Tolek- two newly married couples who accompany the rest on topping trip to the country

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