He claimed that he didn't even wish to be known as a Polish writer, but simply as Gombrowicz. From Wordnik.com. [Salvation Through Laughter] Reference
Every confiscated copy of a book by Milosz, Herbert, Kolakowski, Gombrowicz, Brandys, and Konwicki improves their appetite. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from the Gdansk Prison] Reference
I'm not sure if that would have pleased Gombrowicz, who had an entirely different idea of the kind of fame he wanted for himself. From Wordnik.com. [Salvation Through Laughter] Reference
Solaris seems to be the only one to be translated from French - Gombrowicz has suffered much more from the 2nd hand translating stuff. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: RELAY TRANSLATION.] Reference
On a cheerier note, I was in the Union Square Barnes & Noble the other day and noticed that Midnight Picnic was on the Paperback Favorites table--beside a Gombrowicz book!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
However, I did find one over at the Center for Book Culture, the organization that runs Dalkey Archive Press:There are four great novelists: Kafka, Broch, Musil, Gombrowicz. From Wordnik.com. [cfbc interviews] Reference
The narrator, Gombrowicz himself, promises to explain this use of brackets, but fails to do so; never mind, the reader is more likely to resent his arch dealings with quotation marks. From Wordnik.com. [Dancing the Polka] Reference
And if you've never looked at the diaries of Witold Gombrowicz, you don't know what it is to be educated (by which I mean Gombrowicz is a spectacular example of what it is to be such). From Wordnik.com. [One of the greatest poets ...] Reference
Mati Unt (1944-2005: novelist, playwright, journalist, and theatre director; renowned for his fiction and for his stage adaptations of works by Gombrowicz, Genet, Beckett ...). From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
I was hoping you would read Gombrowicz!. From Wordnik.com. [Lawyer Kraykowski’s Dancer | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast] Reference
Gombrowicz, Witold. From Wordnik.com. [Space-Time for Springers by Fritz Leiber on Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast] Reference
Ferdydurke, Witold Gombrowicz. From Wordnik.com. [page 56, sentence 5: a game] Reference
Big Sur, Big Sur And The Oranges Of Hieronymus Bosch, California, Carmel, Dumas, Emil White, Gombrowicz, Henry Miller, Hieronymus Bosch, Montaigne, Tropic Of Cancer, Tropic-Of-Capricorn, Voltaire. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Henry: Henry Miller and a Sunday in Big Sur] Reference
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