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by Witold Gombrowicz (Author) "BUT let me tell you about another, even more curious adventure ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 362 pages
  • Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press; Reissue edition (25 Aug 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0802151590
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802151599
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.2 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Intellectual Thriller, 26 Aug 2003
Cosmos concerns man's need for order, or as Gombrowicz calls it form. So strong is this drive that the protagonists of this novel construct 'meaning', on the flimsiest of evidence, where there is perhaps none. Certain motifs crystallise in the minds of the characters and become points of obsessive fixation by which they orientate themselves. Why these motifs and not others seems to be irrelevant as all the characters become fixated on some image. This arbitrary filtration of phenomena seems to be a psychological necessity by excluding excessive irrelevant detail (chaos) but at the cost of introducing systematic distortion. This distortion seems to constitute reality for Gombrowicz, or at least for his characters. Apart from that this is also one of the funniest books I've ever read.
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