03028nam 2200577 450 991081395800332120230803194630.00-300-20701-810.12987/9780300207019(CKB)2560000000315219(EBL)4585775(SSID)ssj0001400697(PQKBManifestationID)12545526(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001400697(PQKBWorkID)11344147(PQKB)11620333(MiAaPQ)EBC4585775(DE-B1597)486391(OCoLC)900283731(DE-B1597)9780300207019(Au-PeEL)EBL4585775(CaPaEBR)ebr11234889(EXLCZ)99256000000031521920160804h20142014 uy 1engur|nu---|u||utxtccrTrans-Atlantyk an alternate translation /Witold Gombrowicz ; translated by Danuta BorchardtNew Haven, [Connecticut] ;London, [England] :Yale University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (190 p.)A Margellos World Republic of Letters BookDescription based upon print version of record.0-300-17530-2 Front matter --CONTENTS --TRANSLATOR'S NOTE --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --PREFACE TO THE 1957 EDITION --Trans-AtlantykConsidered 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."Margellos world republic of letters book.Polish peopleArgentinaHistoryFictionPolish peopleHistory891.8/537Gombrowicz Witold257079Borchardt Danuta1930-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813958003321Trans-Atlantyk4002415UNINA