Ferdydurke (Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover
A reissue of a story about 30-year-old Ferdydurke, who is overwhelmed by a demonic professor who takes him back in time, plunging him into adolescence, and proceeding to expose and annihilate the frauds and shams of traditional society.
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Review:
"Extravagant, brilliant, disturbing, brave, funny--wonderful. . . . Long live its sublime mockery."--Susan Sontag, from the foreword "Ferdydurke, among its centrifugal charms, includes some of the truest and funniest literary satire in print."--John Updike "This promises to be, at last, the English translation of Ferdydurke thatwe have all been waiting for."--Stanislaw Baranczak, Harvard University
About the Author:
Witold Gombrowicz is the author of A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes, Trans-Atlantyk, Cosmos, and Pornografia, the first three available from Yale University Press. These, along with his plays and his Diary, have been translated into more than thirty languages. Danuta Borchardt has translated several works by Witold Gombrowicz. She is also a writer of short stories, which are regularly published on the website Exquisite Corpse.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0140116397
- ISBN 13 9780140116397
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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