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Pornografia

by Witold Gombrowicz

Controversial novel exploring taboo desire through philosophical and erotic narrative

About the author

Witold Gombrowicz

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.

More by Witold Gombrowicz

FerdydurkeAbsurdist novel about intellectual confronting childish games and social immaturity
Trans-AtlantykPicaresque novel about Polish aristocrat and servants adrift in South America
CosmosMetaphysical novel about mysterious signs hidden in ordinary domestic objects
PossessedPlay about power dynamics through philosophical conversation and psychological manipulation