Trans-Atlantyk (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Witold Gombrowicz
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: September, 1945, immediately after the outbreak of World War II
- Setting: Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a large estate in the Pampas
- Principal Characters: Witold Gombrowicz, Gonzalo, Tomasz Kobrzycki, Ignacy Kobrzycki, Horatio, The Baron, Pyckal, Ciumkała, Popacki, Feliks Kosiubidzki, Podsrocki, Cieciszowski
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, World War II, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Argentina or Argentineans, Nazism or Nazis, Poland or Polish people, Immaturity
- Locales: Buenos Aires, Argentina
As fate would have it, the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz was stranded in Buenos Aires at the beginning of World War II. He had achieved sufficient literary celebrity within Poland as the author of Ferdydurke (1937; English translation, 1961) to interest the proprietors of a pleasure cruise line. Invited to lend his nascent prestige to the maiden voyage of a ship bound for Argentina in August, 1939, Gombrowicz set off on what should have been a brief vacation. Within days, however, Poland was overrun by the German Blitzkrieg, a withering onslaught of tank and air power—met...
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