A brilliant, semiautobiographical satirical novel from one of the
foremost figures in twentieth-century Polish literature, now in a
new English translation Considered by many to be among the greatest
writers of the past hundred years, Polish novelist Witold
Gombrowicz explores the modern predicament of exile and
displacement in a disintegrating world in his acclaimed classic
Trans-Atlantyk. Gombrowicz's most personal novel-and arguably his
most iconoclastic-Trans-Atlantyk is written in the style of a
gaweda, a tale told by the fireside in a language that originated
in the seventeenth century. It recounts the often farcical
adventures of a penniless young writer stranded in Argentina when
the Nazis invade his homeland, and his subsequent "adoption" by the
Polish embassy staff and emigre community. Based loosely on
Gombrowicz's own experiences as an expatriate, Trans-Atlantyk is
steeped in humor and sharply pointed satire, interlaced with dark
visions of war and its horrors, that entreats the individual and
society in general to rise above the suffocating constraints of
nationalistic, sexual, and patriotic mores. The novel's themes are
universal and its execution ingenious-a masterwork of
twentieth-century literary art from an author whom John Updike
called "one of the profoundest of the late moderns."
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