Witold Gombrowicz
Polish novelist and playwright who spent much of his life in Argentina after fleeing the Nazi invasion. Ferdydurke is his masterpiece, a grotesquely comic attack on the tyranny of social forms and the cult of immaturity.
Works
- FerdydurkeAbsurdist novel about intellectual confronting childish games and social immaturity
- Trans-AtlantykPicaresque novel about Polish aristocrat and servants adrift in South America
- PornografiaControversial novel exploring taboo desire through philosophical and erotic narrative
- CosmosMetaphysical novel about mysterious signs hidden in ordinary domestic objects
- PossessedPlay about power dynamics through philosophical conversation and psychological manipulation