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Witold Gombrowicz

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Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.


— Witold Gombrowicz


#writing-craft-talent #life

W polowie drogi mojego zywota posrod ciemnego znalazlem sie lasu. Las ten co gorsza byl zielony.


— Witold Gombrowicz


#green-forest #middle-age-crisis #age

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.


— Witold Gombrowicz


#art

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.


— Witold Gombrowicz


#go #i #instead #lectures #more

You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.


— Witold Gombrowicz


#free #fresh #her #love #modern






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In the story "Pamiętnik z okresu dojrzewania" the author above all engages in paradoxes which control the entrance of the individual into the social world and also the repressed passions which rule human behaviour. Moreover his dramas were repeatedly staged in the most important theatres in the whole world by the prominent directors such as Jorge Lavelli Alf Sjöberg Ingmar Bergman along with Jerzy Jarocki and Jerzy Grzegorzewski in Poland. ) In 1911 his family moved to Warsaw.

His works are characterized by deep psychological analysis a certain sense of paradox and an absurd anti-nationalist flavor. He gained fame only during the last years of his life but is now considered one of the foremost figures of Polish literature.

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