Reconstructing a Genius’s Life: A New and Comprehensive Biography of Witold Gombrowicz

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Review Article| December 01 2019 Reconstructing a Genius’s Life: A New and Comprehensive Biography of Witold Gombrowicz Klementyna Suchanow, Gombrowicz. Ja, geniusz [Gombrowicz. I, a genius], (Wołowiec: Wydawnictwo Czarne, 2017; Warsaw: Muzeum Literatury im. Adama Mickiewicza, 2017), Vol. I, 582 pp., vol. II, 598 pp., bibliography, photographs, maps, index. ISBN 978-83-8049-557-9; ISBN 978-83-947500-1-5. Andrzej Karcz Andrzej Karcz Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences Andrzej Karcz is Associate Professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences and lecturer in modern and contemporary Polish literature at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland. He received his Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Chicago. From 1999 to 2006, he worked as an Assistant Professor of Polish literature at the University of Kansas. He is the author of The Polish Formalist School and Russian Formalism (2002), Teksty z daleka i bliska. Szkice nie tylko o literaturze [Texts from far and near: Essays on literature and other matters] (2003), and Refleksja nad literaturą w polskim piśmiennictwie emigracyjnym [Reflections on literature in Polish émigré writing] (2017). He is also co-editor of a volume on Polish studies in America (2005) and editor of the correspondence of Czesław Miłosz and Manfred Kridl (2005). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2019) 64 (4): 61–69. https://doi.org/10.5406/polishreview.64.4.0061 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Andrzej Karcz; Reconstructing a Genius’s Life: A New and Comprehensive Biography of Witold Gombrowicz. The Polish Review 1 December 2019; 64 (4): 61–69. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/polishreview.64.4.0061 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressThe Polish Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2019 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2019 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.