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Witold Gombrowicz Net Worth
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Total Net Worth at the moment 2024 year – is about $200,4 Million.
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Witold Gombrowicz information Birth date: August 4, 1904 Death date: 1969-07-24 Birth place: Maloszyce, Poland, Russian Empire [now Maloszyce, Swietokrzyskie, Poland] Profession:Writer Education:University of Warsaw
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How tall is Witold Gombrowicz – 1,68m.
How much weight is Witold Gombrowicz – 50kg
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Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish novelist and dramatist. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist flavor. In 1937 he published his first novel, Ferdydurke, which presented many of his usual themes: the problems of immaturity and youth, the creation of identity in interactions with others, and an ironic, critical examination of class roles in Polish society and culture. He gained fame only during the last years of his life, but is now considered one of the foremost figures of Polish literature.
Biography,Polish yearsPassport photo, 1939Gombrowicz was born in Maloszyce, in Congress Poland, Russian Empire, to a wealthy gentry family. He was the youngest of four children of Jan and Antonina (nee Kotkowska). In an autobiographical piece, A Kind of Testament, he wrote that his family had lived for four hundred years in Lithuania on an estate between Vilnius and Kaunas but were displaced after his grandfather was accused of participating in the January Uprising of 1863. He later described his family origins and social status as early instances of a lifelong sense of being between (entre). In 1911 his family moved to Warsaw. After completing his education at Saint Stanislaus Kostkas Gymnasium in 1922, he studied law at Warsaw University, earning a masters degree in law in 1927. He spent a year in Paris, where he studied at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales. He was less than diligent in his studies, but his time in France brought him in constant contact with other young intellectuals. He also visited the Mediterranean.When he returned to Poland he began applying for legal positions with little success. In the 1920s he started writing. He soon rejected the legendary novel, whose form and subject matter were supposed to manifest his worse and darker side of nature. Similarly, his attempt to write a popular novel in collaboration with Tadeusz Kepinski was a failure. At the turn of the 1920s and 1930s he started to write short stories, which were later printed under the title Memoirs of a Time of Immaturity, later edited by Gombrowicz and published under the name of Bacacay, the street where he lived during his exile in Argentina. From the moment of this literary debut, his reviews and columns started appearing in the press, mainly in the Kurier Poranny (Morning Courier). He met with other young writers and intellectuals forming an artistic cafe society in Zodiak and Ziemianska, both in Warsaw. The publication of Ferdydurke, his first novel, brought him acclaim in literary circles.Exile in ArgentinaJust before the outbreak of the Second World War, Gombrowicz took part in the maiden voyage of the Polish cruise liner Chrobry, to South America. When he learned of the outbreak of war in Europe, he decided to wait in Buenos Aires until the war was over, he reported to the Polish legation in 1941 but was considered unfit for military duties. He stayed in Argentina until 1963—often, especially during the war, in poverty.At the end of the 1940s Gombrowicz was trying to gain a position in Argentine literary circles by publishing articles, giving lectures in Fray Mocho cafe, and finally, by publishing in 1947 a Spanish translation of Ferdydurke, written with the help of his friends, among them Virgilio Pinera. Today, this version of the novel is considered to a significant literary event in the history of Argentine literature, but at the time of its publication it did not bring any great renown to the author, nor did the publication of his drama Slub in Spanish (The Marriage, El Casamiento) in 1948. From December 1947 to May 1955 Gombrowicz worked as a bank clerk in Banco Polaco, the Argentine branch of Pekao SA Bank, and formed a friendship with Zofia Chadzynska, who introduced him to the Buenos Aires political and cultural elite. In 1950 he started exchanging letters with Jerzy Giedroyc, and from 1951 he started having works published in the Parisian journal Culture, in which fragments of Dziennik (Diaries) appeared in 1953. In the same year he published a volume of work which included the drama Slub (The Marriage) and the novel Trans-Atlantyk, in which the subject of national identity on emigration was controversially raised. After October 1956 four books by Gombrowicz appeared in Poland and brought him great renown despite the fact that the authorities did not allow the publication of Dziennik (Diary).Gombrowicz had affairs with both men and women. In his later serialised Diary (1953–69) he wrote about his adventures in the homosexual underworld of Buenos Aires, particularly his sexual experiences with young men from the lower class, a theme which he picked up again when interviewed by Dominique de Roux in A Kind of Testament (1973).Last years in EuropeGombrowiczs grave in VenceIn the 1960s Gombrowicz became recognised globally, and many of his works were translated, including Pornografia (Pornography) and Kosmos (Cosmos). His dramas were staged in theatres around the world, especially in France, Germany and Sweden.Having received a scholarship from the Ford Foundation, Gombrowicz returned to Europe in 1963. He stayed for a year in West Berlin, where he endured a slanderous campaign organised by the Polish communist authorities. His health deteriorated during this stay, and he was not able to go back to Argentina. He went back to France in 1964. He spent three months in Royaumont abbey, near Paris, where he met Rita Labrosse, a Canadian from Montreal who studied contemporary literature. In 1964 he moved to the Cote dAzur in the south of France with Labrosse, whom he employed as his secretary. He spent the rest of his life in Vence, near Nice.Gombrowiczs health prevented him from thoroughly benefiting from this late renown. It worsened notably in spring 1964, he became bedridden and was unable to write. In May 1967 he was awarded the Prix International. The following year, on December 28, he married Rita Labrosse. On the initiative of his friend Dominique de Roux, who hoped to cheer him up, he gave a series of thirteen lectures about the history of philosophy to de Roux and Rita, ironically titled Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes, transcribed by de Roux. The lectures started with Kant and ended with existentialism. The series ended before Gombrowicz could deliver the planned last part, interrupted by his death on July 24, 1969. He was buried in the cemetery in Vence.
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