02585nam 2200589Ia 450 991080805100332120200520144314.01-281-73099-897866117309940-300-13205-0(CKB)1000000000472189(OCoLC)123277984(CaPaEBR)ebrary10167899(SSID)ssj0000131159(PQKBManifestationID)11937050(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000131159(PQKBWorkID)10015583(PQKB)10151776(MiAaPQ)EBC3419851(Au-PeEL)EBL3419851(CaPaEBR)ebr10167899(CaONFJC)MIL173099(OCoLC)923587625(EXLCZ)99100000000047218920050509d2005 uy 1engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCosmos /Witold Gombrowicz ; translated from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt1st ed.New Haven Yale University Pressc20051 online resource (ix, 189 pages)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-10848-6 Intro -- Cosmos -- Translator's Note -- Cosmos.A dark, quasi-detective novel, ""Cosmos ""follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man's attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.Published in 1965, ""Cosmos ""is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run ""pension. ""But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the ""pension, ""then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.""Cosmos ""is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of ""Ferdydurke."".Polish literature20th centuryPolish fictionPolish literaturePolish fiction.891.8/5/37Gombrowicz Witold257079Borchardt Danuta1930-1611209MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808051003321Cosmos3939345UNINA