false 15584 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741m/15584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741s/15584.jpg Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.
Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.
Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.</P>]]> 15584 10 2257631 book 1965 Kosmos total:139|5:70|4:37|3:25|2:6|1:1| 139 586 243 24 9632 4.04 1173 146 2613717 4.03 552 70 50755252 70747 15584 0300108486 9780300108484 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741m/15584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741s/15584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15584.Cosmos 4.20 136 Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.
Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.
Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.</P>]]> 1965 3 2 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 17:57:12 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 12:23:52 -0700 2009 Cosmos is a long 189 pages. It is tedious during most of the first half, then explodes with power. More tedium follows, escalating to the point that it becomes nail-biting tension. A tedious denoument follows a thrilling climax. Overall, the book offers maybe a 3:1 tedium/thrill ratio and...more...]]> 10744021 390579 15584 0300108486 9780300108484 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741m/15584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741s/15584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15584.Cosmos 4.22 139 Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.
Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.
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Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.
Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.</P>]]> 1965 3 0 false Thu Dec 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 13:43:04 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 25 15:11:16 -0800 2008 more...]]> 55691591 395634 15584 0300108486 9780300108484 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741m/15584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741s/15584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15584.Cosmos 4.22 139 Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.
Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.
Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.</P>]]> 1965 5 0 false Mon May 11 12:12:18 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 13:36:05 -0700 2009 Cosmos that I own had been read previously by a college student who clearly wouldn't have read it otherwise. At first, his marginalia are serious and boring, like his essays no doubt. It's clear he had read a textbook, remembered a term or two from it, watched how his professer used it, ...more...]]> 3816988 238360 15584 0300108486 9780300108484 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741m/15584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741s/15584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15584.Cosmos 4.22 139 Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.
Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.
Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.</P>]]> 1965 5 1 false Mon Jul 30 16:53:56 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 02:55:45 -0800 2009
Gombrowicz uses a barrage of neurotic, repetitive language that creates a sense of absolute paranoia and psychological horror.

"Did that windowpane look at me with a human eye?"

]]> 15082988 783688 15584 0300108486 9780300108484 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741m/15584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741s/15584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15584.Cosmos 4.22 139 Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.
Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.
Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.</P>]]> 1965 4 0 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 15:20:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 16:04:26 -0800 2008 more...]]> 9519154 639624 15584 0300108486 9780300108484 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741m/15584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741s/15584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15584.Cosmos 4.22 139 Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.
Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.
Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.</P>]]> 1965 5 0 false Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sun Nov 25 11:35:36 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 25 11:39:49 -0800 2007 more...]]> 80312762 1133758 15584 0300108486 9780300108484 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741m/15584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741s/15584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15584.Cosmos 4.22 139 Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.
Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.
Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.</P>]]> 1965 2 0 false Tue Dec 08 11:34:21 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 08 11:43:28 -0800 2009
There is a mildly appealing "Eastern European mania" element to the the narrati...more...]]> 65908678 1652316 15584 0300108486 9780300108484 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741m/15584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741s/15584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15584.Cosmos 4.22 139 Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.
Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.
Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.</P>]]> 1965 4 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Sun Aug 02 15:36:29 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 15:38:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 18967577 1035053 15584 0300108486 9780300108484 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741m/15584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741s/15584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15584.Cosmos 4.22 139 Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.
Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.
Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.</P>]]> 1965 4 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989 Sat Mar 29 21:57:13 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 21:57:13 -0700 2008 more...]]> 17635722 953172 15584 0300108486 9780300108484 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741m/15584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741s/15584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15584.Cosmos 4.22 139 Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.
Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.
Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.</P>]]> 1965 5 0 false Wed Mar 12 18:36:37 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 12 18:36:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 40321889 18688 15584 0300108486 9780300108484 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741m/15584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741s/15584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15584.Cosmos 4.22 139 Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.
Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.
Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.</P>]]> 1965 3 0 false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 17 13:02:33 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 10 18:21:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 22053141 166713 15584 0300108486 9780300108484 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741m/15584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741s/15584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15584.Cosmos 4.22 139 Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.
Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.
Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.</P>]]> 1965 5 0 false Mon Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 11 20:31:19 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 21:57:31 -0700 2008
It all begins when two young men looking for a room to rent during their school vacation stumble upon a dead sparrow that is hung from a tree (too high to have been hung by a child!) in the woods, and end ...more...]]> 40871976 1830652 15584 0300108486 9780300108484 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741m/15584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741s/15584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15584.Cosmos 4.22 139 Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.
Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.
Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.</P>]]> 1965 5 0 false Thu Dec 25 05:57:05 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 25 05:58:29 -0800 2008 9699922 590450 2249514 8308027636 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1196337975m/2249514.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1196337975s/2249514.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2249514.Kosmos 5.00 2 Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.
Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.
Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.

]]> 1965 5 0 false Fri May 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 29 04:05:53 -0800 2007 Sat May 24 02:38:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 43206050 142296 15584 0300108486 9780300108484 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741m/15584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741s/15584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15584.Cosmos 4.22 139 Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.
Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.
Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.</P>]]> 1965 5 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 21:09:56 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 21:12:20 -0800 2009 2789876 175164 15584 0300108486 9780300108484 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741m/15584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741s/15584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15584.Cosmos 4.22 139 Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.
Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.
Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.</P>]]> 1965 4 0 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jul 06 21:54:25 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 06 21:57:30 -0700 2007 22362934 124121 15584 0300108486 9780300108484 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741m/15584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741s/15584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15584.Cosmos 4.22 139 Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.
Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.
Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.</P>]]> 1965 5 0 false Mon Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 07:39:14 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 08:34:55 -0700 2008 9072644 618746 15584 0300108486 9780300108484 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741m/15584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741s/15584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15584.Cosmos 4.22 139 Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.
Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.
Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.</P>]]> 1965 4 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 13 15:44:48 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 28 21:50:01 -0800 2007 34905794 1190974 15584 0300108486 9780300108484 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741m/15584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166673741s/15584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15584.Cosmos 4.22 139 Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.
Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.
Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.</P>]]> 1965 4 0 false Mon Dec 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 09 10:08:39 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 30 12:35:55 -0800 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=15584