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A Tale of Two Strivings
Marx, Bill | July 11, 1994 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Trans-Atlantyc," written by Witold Gombrowicz. Isolation seemed to feed Gombrowicz's frenzied imagination. Turning his back on home right before it fell to the Nazis and then to the Russians, triggered in him increasingly sadistic prose that lashed into both self and society. Though exile may have been tailor-made for Gombrowicz's introverted, cut-and-slash temperament, the sense of international homelessness turned out to be just another clean, well-lighted cultural cage. One finds in his work the aestheticization of hostility, a lifelong propensity to give society what it didn't want by snorting in its face.

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TRANS-Atlantyk (Book); GOMBROWICZ, Witold; IMMIGRANTS; BOOKS; NAZIS; NATIONAL socialism
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