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UNINA9910465237603321 |
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Autore |
Gombrowicz Witold |
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Titolo |
Trans-Atlantyk : an alternate translation / / Witold Gombrowicz ; translated by Danuta Borchardt |
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New Haven, [Connecticut] ; ; London, [England] : , : Yale University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (190 p.) |
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A Margellos World Republic of Letters Book |
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Polish people - Argentina - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- TRANSLATOR'S NOTE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE TO THE 1957 EDITION -- Trans-Atlantyk |
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Considered by many to be among the greatest writers of the past hundred years, Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz explores the modern predicament of exile and displacement in a disintegrating world in his acclaimed classic Trans-Atlantyk. Gombrowicz's most personal novel-and arguably his most iconoclastic-Trans-Atlantyk is written in the style of a gaweda, a tale told by the fireside in a language that originated in the seventeenth century. It recounts the often farcical adventures of a penniless young writer stranded in Argentina when the Nazis invade his homeland, and his subsequent "adoption" by the Polish embassy staff and émigré community. Based loosely on Gombrowicz's own experiences as an expatriate, Trans-Atlantyk is steeped in humor and sharply pointed satire, interlaced with dark visions of war and its horrors, that entreats the individual and society in general to rise above the suffocating constraints of nationalistic, sexual, and patriotic mores. The novel's themes are universal and its execution ingenious-a masterwork of twentieth-century literary art from an author whom John Updike called "one of the profoundest of the late moderns." |
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UNINA9910451094703321 |
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Autore |
MacKenzie John M. |
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The partition of Africa, 1880-1900 and European imperialism in the nineteenth century / / John M. MacKenzie |
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London ; ; New York : , : Methuen, , 1983 |
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1-135-83610-8 |
1-280-14346-0 |
0-203-97633-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (51 p.) |
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Colonies - Africa - 19th century |
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Africa Colonization |
Africa History 1884-1918 |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Foreword; Time-chart; The Partition of Africa 1880-1900; Bibliography; Notes |
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Much of the historical debate surrounding the partition of Africa, the events that led up to it and its implications for the continent itself and for the rest of the world is so controversial that it is difficult to provide a coherent survey of the shifting theories of the last twenty years. In this pamphlet Dr MacKenzie attempts to do this, by sketching the historical background to the partition, surveying the events of the partition in the four main regions of Africa and then examining in turn the theories produced to explain the sequence of events. |
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