This is the first English translation of Witold Gombrowicz's Diary, the most Polish and the most universal of his works. Gombrowicz (1904-1969), who left Poland at age thirty-five and never returned, whose writings were banned in his own country, has had an impact on Polish literature unlike any of his contemporaries. But he changed more than the image of Polish letters. If literature cannot influence national character, it can at least influence the national image, its understanding and evaluation of itself. That is what Gombrowicz changed: the image and stereotype of the Pole.
- ISBN10 0300183399
- ISBN13 9780300183399
- Publish Date 19 June 2012 (first published 1 March 1988)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 800
- Language English