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In search of lost insolence: Ferdydurke and cynicism

open access: yesPrzestrzenie Teorii, 2013
This article is an attempt to interpret Witold Gombrowicz’s first novel in the context of cynicism, which is first conceptualized within the Foucauldian tradition as a practice of “frank speech” (parrhesia), and then, according to Peter Sloterdijk’s ...
Jerzy Franczak
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“The great battle of Paris”: on the first French edition of Ferdydurke

open access: yesPrzestrzenie Teorii, 2013
This article presents the story of the first French edition of Witold Gombrowicz’s Ferdydurke. The novel was published in October 1958 by the Julliard publishing house. The article is based on letters that Gombrowicz exchanged with Constantin Jelenski, a
Paweł Rodak
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The “Ferdydurke Man” fades away

open access: yesPrzestrzenie Teorii, 2013
Gombrowicz’s life can be divided into two parts. During the first period of his life, Gombrowicz is preoccupied with the “Ferdydurke Man”, i.e. a funny character who is tortured by Form, which he tries to overcome but which he finally succumbs to by ...
Jerzy Jarzębski
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Brak normy jako norma: Gombrowicz „tłumaczy” Ferdydurke

open access: yesMiędzy Oryginałem a Przekładem, 2016
In 1973 in France the translation of Gombrowcz’s Ferdydurke by Georges Sédir was published. The initiator of this publication was a French editor Christian Bourgois, who considered the previous French edition of the novel (translated by Roland Martin and
Renata Niziołek
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Gombrowicz’s sins against freedom. On the ethical project presented in Ferdydurke

open access: yesPrzestrzenie Teorii, 2013
Gombrowicz’s way of thinking about freedom changed over years. He did not simply follow the ideas formulated in the 1930s. In the world presented in Ferdydurke Gombrowicz described the ontological foundations of freedom as significantly weaker than the ...
Stefan Chwin
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There is no such thing as Society. Ferdydurke in neoliberalism, postmodernism and gender

open access: yesPrzestrzenie Teorii, 2013
In this article Ferdydurke is discussed as a forerunner of the logic of late capitalism with all its repercussions, as identified by Frederick Jameson.
Ewa Majewska
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Witold Gombrowicz: Diary of a Playwright [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The article discusses Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz\u27s Diary as a playwright, his theatrical career, and states that his image in the public entertainment field was said to be influenced by his self-absorbed ...
Kuharski, Allen J.
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Mecedonio Fernández y Witold Gombrowicz: Los no-existentes novelistas

open access: yesKáñina, 2016
En general, la historiografía literaria ha relacionado al Museo de la Novela de la Eterna de Macedonio Fernández y a Ferdydurke de Witold Gombrowicz de manera espacial (como parte de la producción argentina, incluso en el caso del polaco Gombrowicz) y ...
Elizabeth Corrales Millán
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