Gombrowicz in transnational context: translation, affect, and politics

Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) was born and lived in Poland for the first half of his life but spent 24 years as an émigré in Argentina before returning to Europe to live in West Berlin and finally Vence, France.

His works have always been of interest to those studying Polish or Argentinean or Latin American literature, but in recent years the trend toward a transnational perspective in scholarship has brought his work to increasing prominence.

Indeed, the complicated web of transnational contact zones where Polish, Argentinean, French and German cultures intersect to influence his work is now seen as the appropriate lends through which his creativity ought to be examined.

This volume contributes to the transnational interpretation of Gombrowicz by bringing together scholars to offer new analyses in three distinct themes of study - translation, affect and politics.