The difficult childhood of an adult: aging and maturity in Witold Gombrowicz’s pornografia

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buir.contributor.authorJust, Daniel
dc.citation.epage39en_US
dc.citation.spage17en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber116en_US
dc.contributor.authorJust, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-05T06:17:34Z
dc.date.available2021-03-05T06:17:34Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.description.abstractMaturity and immaturity are the hallmarks of Witold Gombrowicz’s literary texts. They were introduced in his first novel, Ferdydurke, and an early collection of short stories, Memoirs from a Time of Immaturity, and continued to play a central role in his fiction and nonfiction works, including the Diary, A Kind of Testament, and the penultimate novel, Pornografia. Although Gombrowicz has been widely regarded as a staunch critic of maturity and defender of immature spontaneity, playfulness, and formlessness, this view is largely based on his earlier writings. Later works offer a more complex image of Gombrowicz. Pornografia, in particular, no longer pits immaturity against maturity with the goal of discrediting the latter through humor and irony. Instead, it experiments with the possibility of a new relationship between the two, a relationship which would ameliorate the discontents that often come with aging.en_US
dc.embargo.release2022-09-01
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ruslit.2020.09.002en_US
dc.identifier.issn0304-3479
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/75809
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ruslit.2020.09.002en_US
dc.source.titleRussian Literatureen_US
dc.subjectWitold Gombrowiczen_US
dc.subjectMaturityen_US
dc.subjectAgingen_US
dc.subjectPolish modernismen_US
dc.subjectTransgressionen_US
dc.titleThe difficult childhood of an adult: aging and maturity in Witold Gombrowicz’s pornografiaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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