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Translated by: Eric Mosbacher and Alastair Hamilton
Two absurd, unconventional novels, both set in Poland, by a modern master of Polish literature. Grombrowicz, who lived most of his life in Argentina and France, toys with Polish national traditions and social conventions in these blackly humorous works.

About the Author:
Born in Poland in 1904, Witold Gombrowicz lived, virtually unknown, in Argentina, writing novels, stories, and plays for twenty-five years before taking up residence in France. His death in 1969 was a great loss not only for Polish literature but for the world of letters.

"In him. for the first time, Polish literature produced a writer to whom the agonies of being Polish were less important than the tragicomedy of being human."-The Times Literary Supplement