Book Review

May. 7th, 2025 10:50 pm
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Ferdydurke
by Witold Gombrowicz

This satirical 1937 novel concerns a 30 year old man who is forced into the state of an adolescent schoolboy. He has various encounters and adventures in this state of immaturity which are often a bit surreal and absurdist. Through this narrative, Gombrowicz satirizes the serious, intellectual, and perhaps overly mature literary and artistic culture of his day.
There is a lot of insight to the highbrow cultural scene and a scathing critique of it. I do wish that some of the narrator's rambling ruminations had been a bit shorter so that there could have been a bit more plot.

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