Summary
Witold Gombrowicz: Bakakaj
Ten stories, ten prose gems in Bakakaj reveal the fascinating world created by Witold Gombrowicz, one of the most important and best writers of the twentieth century.
In bizarre, fantastic and comic stories, his characters become emblematic people of the modern age, who dream, travel, go crazy... Bakakaj, the street where Witold Gombrowicz, who lived in Buenos Aires, presents girls and men from the neighborhood in the theater of everyday absurdity, where even the most fantastic thoughts and events are possible. Reading this book means joining the small number of people who are still able to experience passion and wonder.
One of the greatest writers of our century.
Milan Kundera
I have always been loyal to the extraordinary novels of Witold Gombrowicz - a great Polish writer, who spent most of his creative life in exile in Argentina - a true legend among Latin American writers. His short stories are masterpieces of the absurd, fantastic and yet based on a terrifying context, another tour de force of one of the most wonderful writers of the twentieth century.
Ariel Dorfman
These sumptuous stories, so stunningly fresh, so full of life and so wildly imaginative, are a real delight.
Alastair Reid
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