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Ferdydurke

Witold Gombrowicz

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1937
Originally in
Originally in Polish
Pages
Pages 240

A thirty-year-old man is marched back to school by a professor and forcibly re-boyed, and every escape, into modern families and country manors, only lands him in another absurd form.

I felt that my form was being violated from outside and that I could do nothing about it.
Ferdydurke, Witold Gombrowicz

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