Ferdydurke
By: Witold Gombrowicz ; translated from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt ; foreword by Susan Sontag.
Contributors: Borchardt, Danuta, 1930-
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Description: "In this novel a writer finds himself tossed into a chaotic world of school-boys by a diabolical professor who wishes to reduce him to childishness. Originally published in Poland in 1937. Ferdydurke became an instant literary sensation and catapulted its young author to fame. Deemed scandalous and subversive by Nazis, Stalinists, and the Polish Communist regime in turn, the novel (as well as all of Gombrowicz's other works) was officially banned in Poland for decades. It has nonetheless remained one of the most influential works of twentieth-century European literature."--BOOK JACKET.