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A dark, quasidetective novel, cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and mans attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life. He wrote four novels, transatlantyk, cosmos, pornografia, and ferdydurke, which, together with his plays and his threevolume diary, have been. He wrote four novels, transatlantyk, cosmos, pornografia, and ferdydurke. So begins witold gombrowiczs awardwinning novel, cosmos.
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