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ISBN: 0300082401 (ISBN13: 9780300082401)
Edition Language: English URL http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/reviews.asp?isbn=9780300082401
Literary Awards: ALTA National Translation Award (2001)
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Ferdydurke Paperback | Pages: 320 pages
Rating: 3.86 | 9471 Users | 305 Reviews

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Title:Ferdydurke
Author:Witold Gombrowicz
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 320 pages
Published:August 11th 2000 by Yale University Press (first published 1937)
Categories:Fiction. European Literature. Polish Literature. Classics. Cultural. Poland

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In this bitterly funny novel by the renowned Polish author Witold Gombrowicz. a writer finds himself tossed into a chaotic world of schoolboys by a diabolical professor who wishes to reduce him to childishness. Originally published in Poland in 1937. Ferdydurke became an instant literary sensation and catapulted the young author to fame. Deemed scandalous and subversive by Nazis. Stalinists. and the Polish Communist regime in turn. the novel (as well as all of Gombrowicz's other works) was officially banned in Poland for decades. It has nonetheless remained one of the most influential works of twentieth-century European literature.

Ferdydurke is translated here directly from the Polish for the first time. Danuta Borchardt deftly captures Gombrowicz's playful and idiosyncratic style. and she allows English speakers to experience fully the masterpiece of a writer whom Milan Kundera describes as "one of the great novelists of our century."

"Extravagant. brilliant. disturbing. brave. funny-wonderful. . . . Long live its sublime mockery."
~ Susan Sontag. from the foreword

"[A] masterpiece of European modernism. . . . Susan Sontag ushers this new translation into print with a strong and useful foreword. calling Gombrowicz's tale 'extravagant. brilliant. disturbing. brave. funny... wonderful.' And it is."
~ Publishers Weekly

Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) wrote three other novels. Trans-Atlantyk. Pornografia. and Cosmos. which together with his plays and his three-volume Diary have been translated into more than thirty languages.



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Ratings: 3.86 From 9471 Users | 305 Reviews

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Crazy, brilliant, and frustrating novel from the 1930's by this mad Polish author. The basic theme/question/idea is: do we possess an identity outside of what people think of us or are we mostly shaped by society's perception of who we are? As all language and all interactions we have with others is little more than mediated societal convention, is there any room to express who we "really" are?Anyway, the story involves a thirty-something author (Gombrowicz) who, up to now, has produced a single

Where has this book been all my life? Gombrowicz might be a 20th century version of Swift. It's all fart jokes and nose-picking until you realize it's actually one of the smartest books you've ever read. But be warned: if you come looking only for the fart jokes and nose-picking, you could easily be disappointed. Many reviewers, perhaps misled by Susan Sontag's introduction, and Gombrowicz's own much later statements, suggest that this is a book in praise of immaturity and damnation of adults.

I didn't finish it (well, I did "read" it): it finished me. So:NR (No Rating)A first for me, this No Rating. And though my index finger twitches on my mouse, dying to rate it if it but could, but how could it? How can anyone's index finger click on any rating? It almost begs to be given one star, cos, Oh my GR-systematizers, how can you, I or anyone like (or "like") this book? So one star should work, cos not only did "I did not like it" occur here, it is, (objectively speaking now!) positively

this book is funny and cool yall, starts off like a weird celine sort of fever dream where the narrator is seeing asses in the sky and then the fever dream turns real!!! omg. + lots of funny stuff like a making faces contest, a fight between analysis and synthesis and about 20 pages spent on athletic schoolgirls in their school girl outfits. good fetish, and in 1934 may have been ahead of its time, altho perhaps the polish schoolgirl of 1934 was not wearing the pleated gingham skirt of today's

Unlike PORNOGRAFIA, this takes its sweet time revving up, but once the motor is cranked FERDYDURKE delivers some bizarro batshit thrills, memorably unnerving encounters, and genuine belly laffs. The intro essay by Susan Sontag praises "its sublime mockery of all attempts to normalize desire," which is spot on. With its tumbling prose, psychological acuity, and surreal gambits, the novel was so far ahead of its time that Gombrowitz included several digressions to discuss his methods and

Good grief, I've got a copy of this somewhere that I must have liberated from a second-hand bookshop years ago and which I am fairly sure has long since gone the way of all books - although it is hard for me to tell as much of my life is in semi-storage to varying degrees.An odd story. Not Mloda Polska (thanks to the correction in comments) but a product of the inter war period. A man is taken out of adult life and made to live as a child, he is forced to return to school and given foster

There is nothing that the mature hate more, there is nothing that disgusts them more, than immaturity' writes Gombrowicz in this comic masterpiece of Polish literature. Be prepared to embrace your immaturity as Gombrowicz attacks so-called 'maturity' and exposes it as a fraud in this story about an aspiring author who is reduced to back to his childish teenage self before a former professor and brought back to school. This first novel of his was banned by the Nazi's and Communist parties for