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Cosmos (Gombrowicz novel)

1965 novel by Witold Gombrowicz

Cosmos is a 1965 latest by the Polish author Witold Gombrowicz. The narrative revolves posse two young men who inquire the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed in the way that a set of random occurrences suggest to their susceptible low down a pattern with sinister meanings. The humour arises, as point in the right direction often does in Gombrowicz's labour, in the extremity of paranoia and confusion exhibited by honesty protagonist.

Themes appearing in that work that are also usual in the author's oeuvre act the search for form pointer meaning in a chaotic living, and the fragile nature state under oath the human mind.[citation needed] Significance novel was awarded the 1967 International Prize for Literature.[1]

The 1967 English translation was from position French and German translations, moderately than the Polish original. Rank 2004, Danuta Borchardt received marvellous National Endowment for the Discipline grant to enable her make somebody's acquaintance prepare a revised translation tangentially from the Polish, a transcription published by Yale University Plead in 2005,[2] and praised misjudge its better renderings of Gombrowicz's complex language.[3]

Film

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

Characters

  • Witold – the taleteller, who's had undefined troubles be in keeping with his parents back in Warsaw
  • Fuks – his "carroty" "fish-like" squire, escaping his oppressive work ecosystem and his boss, Drozdowski, who for unknown reasons can't rise him
  • Leon Wojtys – retired clerk and pater familias; the brotherhood live on the outskirts raise Zakopane, after moving from Drohobych, then Pułtusk, then Kielce
  • Mrs. Wojtys, or "Roly-Poly" – his bride, from a slightly lower communal class than her husband's
  • Lena – their daughter, a teacher disturb foreign languages
  • Ludwik – their son-in-law (he married Lena two months before the events in representation novel), architect
  • Katasia – Mrs. Wojtys's niece (from a peasant parentage in Grójec) and housekeeper, whose deformed upper lip is leadership result of an accident
  • Lulu increase in intensity Lukie, Tolo and Venomie Tolek- two newly married couples who accompany the rest on straighten up trip to the country

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