Cosmos

ISBN: 9780300108484

出版社: Yale University Press

出版年: 2005-10-10

页数: 189

定价: USD 25.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

A dark, quasi-detective novel, Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.

Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.

Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.

作者简介

维托尔德?贡布罗维奇（Witold Gombrowicz, 1904-1969），波兰著名小说家、剧作家，被米兰?昆德拉誉为“我们这个世纪最伟大的小说家之一”，与卡夫卡、穆齐尔、布鲁赫并称为“中欧四杰”。

贡布罗维奇出生于波兰，曾在华沙大学学习法学，后赴法国深造两年。1939年横渡大西洋到阿根廷后，适逢二战爆发，滞留南美达二十四年之久。1963年获得福特基金会全年奖金，在柏林逗留。1964年，他到法国南部的旺斯定居，1967年获得国际文学奖。1969年7月24日，贡布罗维奇在旺斯辞世。贡布罗维奇用母语写作，作品被翻译成多种语言出版，由于他不接受二战后的政治体系，他的大部分作品都不得在波兰出版，直到1986年，波兰才出版了他的全集。

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