Summary
Witold Gombrowicz: Diary
Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) is one of the greatest writers not only of Poland but also of the world, and in Croatia he has long been recognized as an indispensable and iconic author. The first translations of his works appeared in the 1960s thanks to the passion of the greatest Croatian Polonist Zdravko Malić, and since then we have almost all of his works in the Croatian language (the novels "Ferdydurke", "Trans-Atlantik", "Pornografija" and "Kosmos"...). Now finally, translated by Adrian Cvitanović, we have his most famous work, the famous "Diary" that he kept from 1953 as an emigrant in Argentina, then after his return to Europe in 1963, until his death in 1969 in France. In it, with refined feeling and avant-garde ingenuity, he records a series of fragments: artistic, essayistic, philosophical, biographical, memoir, a series of stylistic experiments and ideological debates, in which and with the help of which he makes decisions towards modernity and the past, towards the world and towards Poland, towards his own and other people's literary creativity, towards the basic ideological and philosophical currents of his time, towards politics and culture.
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