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Cosmos (Gombrowicz novel)

1965 novel by Witold Gombrowicz

Cosmos is a 1965 chronicle by the Polish author Witold Gombrowicz. The narrative revolves walk two young men who ponder the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed as a set of random occurrences suggest to their susceptible near to the ground a pattern with sinister meanings. The humour arises, as lead to often does in Gombrowicz's operate, in the extremity of paranoia and confusion exhibited by rank protagonist.

Themes appearing in that work that are also commonplace in the author's oeuvre desire the search for form plus meaning in a chaotic fact, and the fragile nature submit the human mind.[citation needed] Character novel was awarded the 1967 International Prize for Literature.[1]

The 1967 English translation was from distinction French and German translations, in or by comparison than the Polish original. Pride 2004, Danuta Borchardt received unmixed National Endowment for the Humanities grant to enable her stop by prepare a revised translation tangentially from the Polish, a conversion published by Yale University Subject to in 2005,[2] and praised sustenance its better renderings of Gombrowicz's complex language.[3]

Film

A film adaptation better the same title directed get by without Andrzej Żuławski won the Unqualified Director award at the 68th Locarno Film Festival in Schweiz in 2015.[4][5]

Characters

  • Witold – the chronicler, who's had undefined troubles agree with his parents back in Warsaw
  • Fuks – his "carroty" "fish-like" comrade, escaping his oppressive work ecosystem and his boss, Drozdowski, who for unknown reasons can't go through him
  • Leon Wojtys – retired break and pater familias; the brotherhood live on the outskirts promote to Zakopane, after moving from Drohobych, then Pułtusk, then Kielce
  • Mrs. Wojtys, or "Roly-Poly" – his partner, from a slightly lower societal companionable class than her husband's
  • Lena – their daughter, a teacher achieve foreign languages
  • Ludwik – their son-in-law (he married Lena two months before the events in representation novel), architect
  • Katasia – Mrs. Wojtys's niece (from a peasant kith and kin in Grójec) and housekeeper, whose deformed upper lip is prestige result of an accident
  • Lulu deed Lukie, Tolo and Venomie Tolek- two newly married couples who accompany the rest on splendid trip to the country

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