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A dark, quasi-detective novel, Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man’s attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life. Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish reso..more
Published October 10th 2005 by Yale University Press (first published 1965)
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Dec 10, 2018BlackOxford rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Sometimes a Cigar Is Just a Smoke For a sign to be a sign there must be an intention which is quite independent of the object which constitutes the sign itself. Finding intention, and therefore meaning, is a tricky business. It requires imagination, which projects meaning onto objects, making them signs by magic as it were. This creates a mystery: “For every sign deciphered by accident how many might go unnoticed, buried in the natural order of things? .. as if the surrounding reality was alrea..more
Sep 24, 2011s.penkevich rated it liked it
Recommended to s.penkevich by: The Pupa
‘How many sentences can one create out of the twenty-four letters of the alphabet? How many meanings can one gleam from hundreds of weeds, colds of dirt, and other trifles?’ Polish author Wiltold Gombrowicz explores the notions of order in a seemingly random, chaotic world in his 1967 novel Cosmos. Winner of the ‘International Prize for Literature’, which, as translator Danuta Borchardt asserts in her introduction, was ‘second in importance only to the Nobel Prize’, this psychological novel bomba..more
Dec 15, 2013Riku Sayuj rated it really liked it
Shelves: translated, r-r-rs, lit-fic, foriegn-lit
Witold & I: A Cosmos Prelude (Why? How? What an absurdity!) Anyhow, here goes, Witold and I, and our silent adventure: Part I: The Enticement Witold approached me in the park today. He asked me to read his latest book. Just needed an opinion, he said. I knew he was getting to be a big shot in Poland these days. I also knew he had been dabbling quite a bit in Philosophy at the University. So when he gave me his book, I was sure I would end up looking for philosophy in it even though he assured me i..more
Aug 24, 2017Vit Babenco rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
“I looked around and saw whatever there was to see, and it was precisely what I didn’t want to see because I had seen it so many times before: pines and fences, firs and cottages, weeds and grass, a ditch, footpaths and cabbage patches, fields and a chimney… the air… all glistening in the sun, yet black, the blackness of trees, the grayness of the soil, the earthy green of plants, everything rather black.” The universe is a strange place… It is full of strange things… But one must have Witold Gom..more
Oct 29, 2015[P] rated it it was amazing
Some time ago I was having a conversation with a friend of mine about women, specifically the art of figuring out which ones are interested in you, and he was saying that he never felt confident that he was reading the signs right; and that this lack of confidence, in a sense, paralysed him, so that he rarely approached them. He wanted to know how I managed it. How was it that I was always so sure? Well, I let him in on a little secret: stop worrying about signs, as you’ll only confuse yourself...more
Feb 05, 2012Mariel rated it really liked it
Recommended to Mariel by: a butterfly took wing
Sparrow hanging in senseless success. A choked chicken adds to the symbol equation. Fish-face's boss hates him. In an accident they stay the night. Her mouth was a big bang. Everything means nothing, and behind that mouth this mouth. If you fuck someone you fuck everyone they have ever sheet between. Her mouth behind other her mouth, his hands on her hands your hands. Can't pick out ugly star from hot star from her sun star on his glow-worm. White ceiling skies betray signs. Dyslexic mystery. Th..more
May 11, 2009Brent Legault rated it it was amazing
The copy of Cosmos that I own had been read previously by a college student who clearly wouldn't have read it otherwise. At first, his marginalia are serious and boring, like his essays no doubt. It's clear he had read a textbook, remembered a term or two from it, watched how his professer used it, waited for his chance to parrot him. It's also clear that he was also not thinking for himself. Then, beginning on page 70(wherein a violent killing is described), he gets fed up. He stops thinking th..more
Oct 09, 2012Jim Elkins added it
How to Be Genuinly Obsessive-Compulsive, Not Artificially So 'Cosmos' is finicky, fidgety, microscopic, auto-erotic, pointless but sharp as a scratchy saw. Like a perverted Conan Doyle. Like a psychotic entomologist I knew, who was nearly blind and wore absurd thick glasses and could be seen wandering around the college campus trying to peer at bees from one inch away. He thought that car crashes happened somehow on account of him. Like Freud's idea of Dali (as fanatic, as embarrassment to the in..more
Dec 10, 2013Tanuj Solanki rated it really liked it
Zuks! Confound me! An absurd sight of a sparrow hung from a string begins this unique tale of great paranoia and even greater mental contrivance. The central idea is of how a chaotic world is routinely, perpetually, even grudgingly, willed by us human beings into some sort of an order, and how the effects of this willing add in turn to the chaos. Meaning thereby that man's position in the world, while necessarily that of an observer and a learner, is also, out of that same necessity, that of an a..more
May 06, 2013Bjorn rated it really liked it
Two young men show up at a bed & breakfast in the Polish countryside. They've come there to get away from the hustle and bustle of the big city and have some peace and quiet, but it turns out to be anything but; not only do they find a macabre and mystifying corpse nearby, but the family they get to live with seems to have a lot of unresolved issues, which the two youngsters soon find themselves caught up in.. and as always in these types of stories, somebody's going to die before it's all..more
Nov 29, 2007pani Katarzyna rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Recommends it for: people who appreciate being shared insanity with
If there is anyone who knows what the things are behind, in spite of and within themselves, it was this guy (I would go for 'is' though, as, I believe, now he still knows it, only somewhere else). 'To stop connecting, to stop associating.' Because it leads to madness. But then try not to. In a way we are all mad, 'connecting and associating'. In a way it is this madness that makes us be what we are. There is also an interesting passage on bringing yourself pleasure. Out of a mouth of a nearly-madm..more
Mar 28, 2009Jesse rated it liked it
Be warned: Cosmos is a long 189 pages. It is tedious during most of the first half, then explodes with power. More tedium follows, escalating to the point that it becomes nail-biting tension. A tedious denoument follows a thrilling climax. Overall, the book offers maybe a 3:1 tedium/thrill ratio and no middle-ground. Gombrowicz's translated prose here is not near as dynamic as that found in Bacacay or Trans-Atlantyk. I expect that has to do with the translators' various weighings of the demands..more
Dec 20, 2007Billy rated it it was ok
A few years ago people started to use the phrase 'mental masturbation' to describe conversations involving an Ivy League bull session-esque, punctilious analysis focused to a fault on details, or on the wildly hypothetical, such that they do not offer any use in the real world. Reading this short novel (detective story? confession?), translated from the original Polish, I am happy and relieved to report a different and better use for this phase. The main character in this book, a young man who i..more
Jan 03, 2017Crito rated it it was amazing
The style Gombrowicz uses in Cosmos reminds me of jazz. Not quite in the pseudo-improvisational bent the way the beats interpreted it, but the structure behind it. You have a finite number of familiar notes, chords, scales, and yet through arrangement, rhythm, and sheer ingenuity a player can rapid fire out a galaxy of unique interpretations of it. That’s how Gombrowicz uses language here, once he latches onto a particular word he then makes it part of his repertoire for the rest of the novel, d..more
I am convinced that most people read novels such as this, can make neither hide nor hair of it, but are afraid that admitting as much is to admit that they are unable to grasp depth and meaning in the depthless and meaningless. I give this two stars only because I have a rule about allowing one star for translation. Either the translating helped the novel and the translator deserves a star, or the translator hurt the book, in which case the author should be rewarded a conciliatory star. I read o..more
This book was crazy. It's chaotic and all over the place. The ending was a very quick wrap up, but leaves me wondering things. You could cut the anxious nervous energy in this book with a knife it's so thick. Definitely odd. Hated an aspect the author focused on, but won't say anymore about it here. Loved the book itself. Recommend for my friends who love strange obscure books with no real organization. Anyone else? Steer clear as this is not the book for you.
May 05, 2013Piotr rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
(some spoilers follow) So here's the thing: I didn't want to read this book. It's been on my girlfriend's shelf for a while, and even though the younger me would certainly read it eagerly, the current me avoids such titles. I read it though, and even worse, I'm writing a review. The problem with books like 'Cosmos' is that you can either give 5 stars or 2 (or perhaps even 1). Giving 5 makes you a pretentious intellectual, giving 2 means you didn't understand the book and you're trying to rational..more
Mar 29, 2012Panurge rated it it was amazing
bird. stick. cat. mouths. A comprehensive synopsis of Gombrowicz's masterpiece. If one of the spirits of literary Modernism was the search for meaning in an increasingly anomic world, Cosmos answers the call and then some: anything suggests everything else. The resulting order of things is as comically absurd as it is horrific. The all too real world of Cosmos and its all too human instigator/victim/protagonist, the eponymous Witold Gombrowicz, confound any attempt at discerning whether these esoteri..more
Great translation. Gombrowicz uses a barrage of neurotic, repetitive language that creates a sense of absolute paranoia and psychological horror. 'Did that windowpane look at me with a human eye?'
I'll lose cool points here, but that's okay. This book just did not work for me..and was basically a chore to read. Perhaps its thrust was lost in the translation (of the translation, as a fellow reviewer reports above). I'm all for an explication of an illness or mental disease, and I do think this book tweaks the underpinnings of something resembling OCD. But merely for irritainment rather than illumination. Perhaps it could have been a beautiful poem, where its redundance would have felt more..more
As if he were hoping to scare the less dedicated students out of an overenrolled philosophy class, Kierkegaard once started off a book with something like 'The self is a relation that relates itself to the self..' Gombrowicz seems to have grabbed hold of this tangle and run with it deep into the mountains of Poland, where an ever-larger succession of hanged animals and the mental intertwining of a deformed mouth with a smoother, prettier one occupy and torment the protagonist on an otherwise sl..more
I started out disliking this book because of the confusing and rambling use of language and apparent lack of plot, but it started growing on me about halfway through. The narrator's world walks this strange line between reality and paranoia, sanity and craziness, and builds this sense of foreboding and tension that pulled me in. The unusual style- marked with a neurotic repetition of images, made up words, and run on sentences made me feel like I was actually inside the brain of the (perhaps men..more
Nov 08, 2016Brandon Alan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
time behind time in front of time with object behind object in front of object hanging there hanging here in front of us behind us pointing towards something pointing away from something pointing towards everything pointing away from everything showing us what we could believe or perceive showing us what we will believe or perceive showing us what we had believed or perceived showing us what was believed and perceived before an us during an us and after an us before an I during an I and after an..more
Oct 30, 2017Julian rated it really liked it · review of another edition
this book is about smoking weed alone and getting scared
'A sparrow hanged on a piece of wire, a woman's deformed lip, and the whole cosmos of connections between them, produced by human mind.' (Lukasz Pruski's entry in the contest 'Summarize Gombrowicz's 'Cosmos' In Fewer Than 140 Characters.') The vagaries of memory: I do not remember much from my first trip back to the Old Country a scant twenty-five years ago yet I clearly remember surreptitiously reading Witold Gombrowicz's Bacacay under the desk during my high-school history class exactly fifty ye..more
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Mar 11, 2012Stephen rated it really liked it · review of another edition
The absurdism of Albert Camus mixed with a Hitchcockian psychological thriller. Cosmos fits in with the post WWII, philosophic, what-the-hell-is-the-point-of-life style of novel. Much of the staccato sounds of the novel are reminiscent of the minimalist music of the post war period too. The narrator tries to piece together occurrences and fascinations that, to the reader, would never carry relevance. Gombrowitcz seems to be saying, there's no meaning in any of this, the only meaning that life an..more
Oct 26, 2014Howard rated it really liked it
This is a surreal, first person mystery written in 1967 by Polish Gombrowicz. Witold is the name of a young student who, with friend Fuks, goes for a Summer holiday in the Carpathian mountains near Koscieliska. They stay at a potentially strange guest house where Katasia is the maid. Mr Leon Wojtys, wife ‘Roly-Poly’ and daughter Lena are also visiting with her new husband Ludwig. It starts with Fuks noticing on their arrival a sparrow deliberately hanged in a tree – the pair start to notice link..more
Cosmos didn't work for me, and I'm having trouble deciding if it's entirely due to Gombrowicz's writing style, or if it's half that and half because aspects of the book genuinely don't work. With the pure stream-of-consciousness style of Cosmos, I knew within the first few pages that the book would have to be something special to win me over. Under the Volcano managed to overcome my usual preference, but generally stream-of-consciousness style writing is not something I enjoy. Here, Gombrowicz's..more
The last line of this novel reads, 'Today we had chicken fricassee for dinner.' If you are thinking, 'you SOB, why didn't you check spoiler alert,' do not worry, for no such thing has happened. Cosmos is surely the oddest novel I have ever read, and though it does have a plot of sorts, its sheer intensity overcomes normal considerations of such. As the bumptious landlord insists, 'My good man . . . Have you ever put on your thinkie cap? You're dreaming, cooking it up, you think you'll catch it a..more
Dec 17, 2008Cody rated it liked it
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Noir in the Polish countryside..though it's certainly more akin to Hrabal than Hammett. I actually set this aside 2/3 of the way through, with the intention of picking it up again when I was no longer so exhausted by the rather circuitous and purposefully tedious and paranoid narration. After all, knowing Gombrowicz, there is hardly a chance that this will all resolve (and I would be upset if it did; though it is for this reason that, growing a bit weary, I'm not compelled to forge ahead immedi..more
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Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 in Małoszyce, near Kielce, Congress Poland, Russian Empire – July 24, 1969 in Vence, near Nice, France) was a Polish novelist and dramatist. His works are characterized by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and an absurd, anti-nationalist flavor. In 1937 he published his first novel, Ferdydurke, which presented many of his usual themes:..more
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