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Gasyna, George
Being Poland, 11/2018Book Chapter
Witold Gombrowicz (1904–69) is a modernist novelist and playwright, a provocateur whose work is fuelled by antinomy and paradox. For instance, he conceived his literary work as a means of “liberating the Pole from his nation” to help him become a “human being in the world.”¹ Yet, he revolutionized Polish literature by unmasking one of its fun damental themes – the discourse on historical forms of Polishness – as a set of pathological dependencies, which his writing managed to transpose, perhaps for the first time in the nation’s literary history, into new cultural, exilic contexts. Similarly, Gombrowicz pined for worldwide fame
