The works of Witold Gombrowicz have so far been analysed by using concepts and categories formed by the writer himself. Janusz Margański's book, Gombrowicz - The Eternal Debutant / Gombrowicz - ...

New productions highlight the writer’s disquieting theatricality – directed by the stealthy provocateur Krzysztof Garbaczewski in Wrocław on the 15th of December, Michał Znaniecki and Adrian Blanco in ...

When I read Witold Gombrowicz’s Ferdydurke in the late 1980s the Soviet empire was beginning to totter and crack. An English version of the book, published in 1961 in the UK, had been re-issued in ...

Even when the Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz worked within mass-market forms, he veered toward playful disorder. By John Banville John Banville’s novels include “The Book of Evidence,” “The Sea” ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Perhaps it’s best for Witold Gombrowicz (1904-69) to introduce himself: “I am a humourist,” he wrote, “a clown, ...

In the summer of 1939, the writer Witold Gombrowicz set sail from Poland, on the ocean liner Chrobry, on what he thought would be a brief mission as a cultural ambassador to the Polish community in ...

Gombrowicz's irreverence toward national solemnities, and his unconventional literary style, surreal and conceptual at once, made him a strange choice for a literary envoy to conservative Polish ...

Wednesday marked the 50 anniversary of the death of Witold Gombrowicz, one of the foremost figures of 20th-century Polish literature. Witold Gombrowicz with his future wife Rita Labrosse in ...

This past March, on the closing day of an international literary conference held in Krakow, Poland, an elderly woman stood up before hundreds of scholars and admirers gathered to mark the 100th b By ...