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Ferdydurke
by Gombrowicz, Witold
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Red publisher's cloth, fine, in dust jacket with some soiling and a closed short tear and some bumping to back panel, very good
- Seller
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HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London and Watford: Taylor Garnett Evans & Co. Ltd, 1961. First English edition. 272pp. 8vo. Red publisher's cloth, fine, in dust jacket with some soiling and a closed short tear and some bumping to back panel, very good. First English edition. 272pp. 8vo. First edition in English of this classic absurdist novel by the Polish writer, first published in 1937 in Poland, then banned, first by the Nazis, then by the Communists. It was translated into Spanish by Gombrowicz himself in 1947, when he was living in self-imposed exile in Argentina. During a brief thaw, it was reissued in Poland in 1951, where it enjoyed some success, causing the Communists to ban it for its subversive nature. It was translated into French in 1959, then into English in 1961 Eric Mosbacher. An important book in the canon of the post-modern novel, much in the vein of works by Flann O'Brien.
Synopsis
Ferdydurke is a novel by the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz, published in 1937. Considered a masterpiece of European modernism, Ferdydurke was published at an inopportune moment. World War II, the Soviet Union's imposition of a communist regime in Poland, and the author's decades of exile in Argentina nearly erased public awareness of a novel that remains a singularly strange exploration of identity and cultural and political mores.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Mill Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 329938
- Title
- Ferdydurke
- Author
- Gombrowicz, Witold
- Format/Binding
- 272pp. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Red publisher's cloth, fine, in dust jacket with some soiling and a closed short tear and some bumping to back panel, very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First English edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Taylor Garnett Evans & Co. Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London and Watford
- Date Published
- 1961
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