Ferdydurke - Softcover

Gombrowicz, Witold

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ISBN 10: 0140085769 ISBN 13: 9780140085761

Publisher: Penguin, 1986

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The narrator, recently turned thirty, finds an inner conflict between his adolescent impulses and his desire to be socially accepted as a mature adult

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"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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