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Reading In/Between: Migrant Bodies, Latin American Translations [PDF]
This essay examines the role of translation in the redefinition of the relationship between authors and their respective national cultures, and in continuing discussions of gender, sexuality, migration and cultural identity in translation studies.
Larkosh, Christopher
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The janus-faced author: Narrative unreliability and metafiction in Karol Irzykowski's 'Paluba' and Witold Gombrowicz's 'Ferdydurke' [PDF]
Only a few months after the publication of Ferdydurke (1937), two major voices in twentieth-century Polish literature, Bruno Schulz and Artur Sandauer, came up with the hypothesis that Karol Irzykowski's only novel Pałuba (1903) was an immediate ...
De Bruyn, Dieter
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A tightrope walker over the abyss of normal abnormality
This article presents a discussion of a pervert and neurotic pattern of behavior that is displayed by both a narrator and a novel’s characters. In Ferdydurke one can find ideas which were popular in medicine and psychoanalysis at that time, i.e.
Marek Zaleski
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Signed: Gombrowicz: “Pupa,” the Western Canon, and the English Translation of "Ferdydurke"
The present paper aims at demonstrating how the initial norms adopted by translators, affecting their operational norms, impact the hermeneutic potential and process of canonization of the target text—or, in other words, how the consistency of Gombrowicz’
Monika Kołtun
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„Gombrowicz jest moją zmorą”. Dziennikowe zmagania Sławomira Mrożka z Witoldem Gombrowiczem
Autobiograficzna twórczość Sławomira Mrożka, obejmująca pokaźne dzienniki z lat 1962-1989 oraz obszerne tomy korespondencji, wciąż otwarta jest na nowe odczytania.
Barbara Gutkowska
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Witold Gombrowicz : la inmadurez, la forma y otras consideraciones [PDF]
Gombrowicz, convencido de que la formación que todo sistema educativo y político trata de inculcar en nosotros, representa, a la postre, el síntoma de nuestra eterna inmadurez, apuesta por la no-sumisión y la lucha perpetua contra la forma.
Iriondo Aranguren, Mikel
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An invisible empire: on troubles in school
The article presents an interpretation of “school” scenes from Gombrowicz’s Ferdydurke which was inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological method. The use of concepts such as ‘habitus’, ‘reproduction’, and ‘pedagogical authority’ allows one to see not ...
Marian Bielecki
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The aim of this article is to analyse Witold Gombrowicz’s short story entitled “Pamiętnik Stefana Czarnieckiego” in the context of the convergence between the writer’s worldview and the philosophy of Michel Foucault.
Tomasz Jativa
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Gombrowicz’s mug game or game of mugs
The essay concentrates on the opening scenes of Ferdydurke in which Gombrowicz introduces the reader to the world of his fiction. I try to demonstrate that the way in which the author creates the novel’s hero, who is situated between the immature world ...
Paweł Dybel
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The article aims to present one of the most popular yet at the same time often misunderstood novels by Witold Gombrowicz – Ferdydurke. The article claims that the most important motif in Gombrowicz’s works is the problem with Form and in Ferdydurke the ...
Agnieszka Urbańska
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