Witold Gombrowicz Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Witold Gombrowicz Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 â€" July 24, 1969) was a

Polish writer and playwright. His works are characterised by deep

psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd,

anti-nationalist flavor. Because he was a leftist, bisexual, and

anticlerical who defied all party lines, his books were banned in

communist Poland.[1] In 1937 he published his first novel, Ferdydurke,

which presented many of his usual themes: problems of immaturity and

youth, creation of identity in interactions with others, and an

ironic, critical examination of class roles in Polish society and

culture. He gained fame only during the last years of his life, but is

now considered one of the foremost figures of Polish literature. His

diaries were published in 1969 and are, according to the Paris Review,

"widely considered his masterpiece".[2] He was a Nobel Prize candidate

in Literature in 1966, according to a recently published

database.[3]Gombrowicz was born in Małoszyce near Opatów, then in

Radom Governorate, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, to a wealthy

gentry family. He was the youngest of four children of Jan and

Antonina (née Kotkowska). In an autobiographical piece, A Kind of

Testament, he wrote that his family had lived for 400 years in

Lithuania on an estate between Vilnius and Kaunas but were displaced

after his grandfather was accused of participating in the January

Uprising of 1863.[4] He later described his family origins and social

status as early instances of a lifelong sense of being "between"

(entre).[5] In 1911 his family moved to Warsaw. After completing his

education at Saint Stanislaus Kostka's Gymnasium in 1922, Gombrowicz

studied law at Warsaw University, earning a MJur in 1927.[6] He spent

a year in Paris, where he studied at the Institute of Higher

International Studies (French: Institut des Hautes Etudes

Internationales). He was less than diligent in his studies, but his

time in France brought him in constant contact with other young

intellectuals. He also visited the Mediterranean.When Gombrowicz

returned to Poland he began applying for legal positions with little

success. In the 1920s he started writing. He soon rejected the

legendary novel, whose form and subject matter were supposed to

manifest his "worse" and darker side of nature. Similarly, his attempt

to write a popular novel in collaboration with Tadeusz Kępiński was

a failure. At the turn of the 1920s and 1930s Gombrowicz began to

write short stories, later printed under the title Memoirs of a Time

of Immaturity, edited by Gombrowicz and published under the name

Bacacay, the street where he lived during his exile in Argentina. From

the moment of this literary debut, his reviews and columns began

appearing in the press, mainly the Kurier Poranny (Morning Courier).

Gombrowicz met with other young writers and intellectuals, forming an

artistic café society in Zodiak and Ziemiańska, both in Warsaw. The

publication of Ferdydurke, his first novel, brought him acclaim in

literary circles.[7]Just before the outbreak of the Second World War,

Gombrowicz took part in the maiden voyage of the Polish transatlantic

liner MS Chrobry, to South America.[8] When he learned of the outbreak

of war in Europe, he decided to wait in Buenos Aires until it was

over; he reported to the Polish legation in 1941 but was considered

unfit for military duties. He stayed in Argentina until 1963â€"often,

especially during the war, in poverty.
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