Gombrowicz

Perhaps, De Luca was privileging that character over others or perhaps that is an issue of translation since on more than one occasion I've been warned against reading English translations of novels like Gadda's Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana or Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke or Pushkin's Eugene Onegin for the same reasons.

Mark Axelrod: The Day Before Happiness Mark Axelrod 2012

Perhaps, De Luca was privileging that character over others or perhaps that is an issue of translation since on more than one occasion I've been warned against reading English translations of novels like Gadda's Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana or Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke or Pushkin's Eugene Onegin for the same reasons.

Mark Axelrod: The Day Before Happiness Mark Axelrod 2012

On a cheerier note, I was in the Union Square Barnes & Noble the other day and noticed that Midnight Picnic was on the Paperback Favorites table--beside a Gombrowicz book!

AVAILABILITY OF FIRES: UNCLEAR N A 2009

On a cheerier note, I was in the Union Square Barnes & Noble the other day and noticed that Midnight Picnic was on the Paperback Favorites table--beside a Gombrowicz book!

Archive 2009-07-01 N A 2009

And if you've never looked at the diaries of Witold Gombrowicz, you don't know what it is to be educated (by which I mean Gombrowicz is a spectacular example of what it is to be such).

One of the greatest poets ... Frank Wilson 2006

For the celebration of the centenary of his birth in Poland, the Ministry of Culture officially proclaimed 2004 'The Year of Gombrowicz,' and Yale University organized an international conference that featured an exhibition of Gombrowicz materials in the Beinecke Library archives, as well as academic panels, films, and theater performances of his works.

Salvation Through Laughter Simic, Charles 2006

He claimed that he didn't even wish to be known as a Polish writer, but simply as Gombrowicz.

Salvation Through Laughter Simic, Charles 2006

I'm not sure if that would have pleased Gombrowicz, who had an entirely different idea of the kind of fame he wanted for himself.

Salvation Through Laughter Simic, Charles 2006

However, I did find one over at the Center for Book Culture, the organization that runs Dalkey Archive Press:There are four great novelists: Kafka, Broch, Musil, Gombrowicz.

cfbc interviews jlundberg 2005

Solaris seems to be the only one to be translated from French - Gombrowicz has suffered much more from the 2nd hand translating stuff.

languagehat.com: RELAY TRANSLATION. 2004