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Cosmos and Pornografia

By: Witold Gombrowicz
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 0802151590
ISBN-13: 9780802151599
Released: 25 Aug 2000
RRP: £7.99
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Intellectual Thriller - By: C. J. Nason, 26 Aug 2003
Cosmos concerns man's need for order, or as Gombrowicz callls it form. So strong is this drive that the protagonists of this novel construct 'meaning', on the flimsiest of evidence, where there is perhaps none. Certain motifs crystalllise in the minds of the characters & become points of obsessive fixation by which they orientate themselves. Why these motifs & not others seems to be irrelevant as alll the characters become fixated on some image. This arbitrary filtration of phenomena seems to be a psychological necessity by excluding excessive irrelevant detail (chaos) but at the cost of introducing systematic distortion. This distortion seems to constitute reality for Gombrowicz, or at least for his characters. Apart from that this is also one of the funniest books I've ever read.