Ferdydurke - Brossura

Witold Gombrowicz

Brossura

ISBN 10: 071453403X ISBN 13: 9780714534039

Casa editrice: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2005

Riassunto

In this bitterly funny novel, the hero narrates the story of his absurd transformation from confident 30-year-old man into paranoid teenage boy. Awakening one morning in the grip of fear he receives two unwelcome visitors: a ghost of himself standing in the corner of his room, then Pimko, the diabolic doctor of philosophy. As Pimko talks, the narrator finds himself shrinking and Pimko, in turn, growing larger and larger. So begins a hellish nightmare: Ferdydurke is dragged back to the school playground and forced to experience the cruel outrages which the boys perpetuate on one another all over again. Immaturity and the tensions generated by the warped relationship between the self and the surrounding world are the main themes running through Gombrowicz s work, but it is the superb combination of comedy and seriousness that earns Ferdydurke its place as a masterpiece of European modernism.

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Extravagant, brilliant, disturbing, brave, funny... wonderful... --Susan Sontag

One of the great novelists of our century --Milan Kundera

If history hadn't got in the way, Witold Gombrowicz's madcap Bildungsroman might have become the must-read for pubescent existentialists across Europe... Ferdydurke is a fantastically imagined set-piece of modernism --The Guardian

L'autore:

Witold Gombrowicz was born in Poland in 1904 and has written many other novels including Pornografia, The Possessed, Cosmos and Translatlantic. His plays include Princess Ivona, The Marriage and Operetta.

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• Editore: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 071453403X
• ISBN 13: 9780714534039
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272