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from “Gombrowicz in Argentina”
Rita Gombrowicz’s Gombrowicz in Argentina
(Gombrowicz en Argentine
(Gombrowicz en Europe
, 1988) pull together her years of research into Witold Gombrowicz s life and work, along with her recently launched Web site on the author, www.gombrowicz.net. The books are structured as a unique biographical pastiche, comprised of interviews, commentary, photographs, and other ephemera tracing the writer s path from Poland to Argentina, where he spent twenty-four years in exile, beginning at the outbreak of the Second World War; to Germany, where he was invited as a Ford Foundation scholar; and, finally, to France. For reasons of censorship in communist Poland, France had long served as the seat of Gombrowicz s literary career, thanks initially to the Polish Literary Institute in Paris and its journal Kultura