Witold Gombrowicz

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>>9458556
Recently picked up and finished pic related; the foreward by Sam Lipsyte got me interested. GomBROwicz is supremely self-aware, moreso than he gets credit for.

>>9458556
Cosmos 8/10
Pornography 7/10
Ferdydurke 6/10
Trans-atlantic 5/10

Cosmos is great but if you want really good polish writer try Bruno Schultz

If he lived today, he'd be an edgy blogger/redditfag and y'all would cringe anytime you bumped into any of his 'works.'

He obviously craved recognition as a 'real-deal' modernist but failed, which is hardly surprising. After all, this is what happens when you use your fancy 'ME LOOK AT, I'M A MODERNIST, MY FEELINGS IN A WAY YOU'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE I EXPRESS, AND EXCEPT FOR MINE ALL SYMBOLISM IS SHIT (also I don't know how SoC works, but fuck you it's enough if my syntax looks perplexing)' style as a smokescreen you hide your shallow, highschool-grade philosophy behind. Gombrowicz was only capable of smearing one theme over all of his books, and even though he proved so dedicated in doing so, I feel like any /lit/erate could beat the shit out of his childish POV anytime. If you can handle your style, but have nothing to say, or can only talk about what others have been well-aware of for decades, why bother talking at all? Oh, right, so you can go down in history as an edgelord, forgot about that.

Also, I almost forgot that ever since the Internet came around, anything Gombrowicz said or though about human interactions went so badly obsolete it almost hurts.

Overall, I'd choose Casey Neistat over Gombrowicz anytime, simply because I enjoy watching vlogs more than reading blogs.

>>9458672
> Also, I almost forgot that ever since the Internet came around, anything Gombrowicz said or though about human interactions went so badly obsolete it almost hurts

I haven't read him, but what do you mean by this? What has the Internet changed?

I don't read Jews