Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz was born in 1904 into a minor Polish noble family in Maloszyce, a village south of Warsaw. He studied law at the University of Warsaw and briefly practiced before devoting himself entirely to literature. His early stories attracted attention for their provocative exploration of immaturity and social form, but it was Ferdydurke in 1937 that established him as one of Poland's most daring and controversial writers. In 1939, he sailed to Argentina on a literary cruise and, with the outbreak of World War II, chose to remain in Buenos Aires, where he lived in poverty and obscurity for over two decades. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Ferdydurke.