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Ferdydurke
''Ferdydurke'' is a novel by the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz, published in 1937. It was his first and most controversial novel. The book has been described as a "cult novel". Author's comment Gombrowicz himself wrote of his novel that it is not "... a satire on some social class, nor a nihilistic attack on culture... We live in an era of violent changes, of accelerated development, in which settled forms are breaking under life's pressure... The need to find a form for what is yet immature, uncrystalized and underdeveloped, as well as the groan at the impossibility of such a postulate – this is the chief excitement of my book." Translations The first translation of the novel, to Spanish, published in Buenos Aires in 1947, was done by Gombrowicz himself. A translation committee presided over by the Cuban writer Virgilio Piñera helped him in this endeavor, since Gombrowicz felt that he did not know the language well enough at the time to do it on his own. Gombrowicz agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish writer and playwright. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalism, anti-nationalist flavor. In 1937, he published his first novel, ''Ferdydurke'', which presented many of his usual themes: problems of immaturity and youth, creation of Identity (philosophy), identity in interactions with others, and an ironic, critical examination of class roles in Polish society and Polish culture, culture. He gained fame only during the last years of his life, but is now considered one of the foremost figures of Polish literature. His diaries were published in 1969 and are, according to the ''Paris Review'', "widely considered his masterpiece", while ''Cosmos (Gombrowicz novel), Cosmos'' is considered, according to ''The New Yorker'', "his most accomplished novel". He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times, from 1966 to 1969. Biogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
30 Door Key
''30 Door Key'' (Polish: ''Ferdydurke''), also spelled as ''Thirty Door Key'', is a 1991 English-language drama film directed and produced by Jerzy Skolimowski, and written by Jerzy Skolimowski, Michał Skolimowski (credited as ''Michael Lyndon''), and Józef Skolimowski (credited as ''Joseph Kay''). It starred Iain Glen, Robert Stephens, and Crispin Glover. The film was based on the 1937 book ''Ferdydurke'' by Witold Gombrowicz. Plot In 1939, in Warsaw, Poland, a 30-year-old beginning novelist, named Joey, just published his first book. One day, he is visited by his former teacher, professor Pimco, who sends him back to middle school. Cast * Iain Glen as Joey * Robert Stephens as professor Pimco * Crispin Glover as Mintus * Zbigniew Zamachowski as Walek * Beata Tyszkiewicz as aunt Hurlecka * Tadeusz Łomnicki as uncle Hurlecki * Artur Żmijewski as Kopyrda * Dorota Stalińska as Mrs. Young * Jan Peszek as Mr. Young * Judith Godrèche as Zoo Young * Jerzy Bińczycki as profess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgilio Piñera
Virgilio Piñera Llera (August 4, 1912 – October 18, 1979) was a Cuban author, playwright, poet, short story writer, essayist and translator. His best known works are the poem ''La isla en peso'' (1943), the collection of short stories ''Cuentos Fríos'' (1956), the novel ''La carne de René'' (1952) and the play ''Electra Garrigó'' (1959). He is also known for his role in the translation into Spanish of the novel '' Ferdydurke'', by Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz. Piñera is one of the most celebrated authors of Cuban literature. His work explores alienation, absurd and madness, featuring characters that often find themselves in ridiculous and grotesque scenarios. He was openly homosexual; however, born into a Christian family, Piñera struggled with guilt and later, after the Cuban Revolution, with the government's ostracism. Nevertheless, Piñera's work was rediscovered by Cuban and Latin American authors such as Severo Sarduy, Víctor Fowler, Rolando Sánchez and Ric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Skolimowski
Jerzy Skolimowski (; born 5 May 1938) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist, actor and painter. Beginning as a screenwriter for Andrzej Wajda's ''Innocent Sorcerers'' (1960), Skolimowski has made more than twenty films since his directorial debut ''The Menacing Eye'' (1960). In 1967 he was awarded the Golden Bear prize for his Belgian film ''The Departure (1967 film), The Departure'' (1967). Among his other notable films is ''Deep End (film), Deep End'' (1970), starring Jane Asher and John Moulder Brown. He lived in Los Angeles for over 20 years where he painted in a figurative, expressionist mode and occasionally acted in films. He returned to Poland, and to filmmaking as a writer and director, after a 17-year hiatus with ''Four Nights with Anna'' (2008). He received the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2016 Venice Film Festival. His film ''EO (film), EO'' (2022) was awarded the Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival), Jury Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Mosbacher
Eric Mosbacher (22 December 1903 – 2 July 1998) was an English journalist and translator from Italian, French, German, and Spanish. He translated work by Ignazio Silone and Sigmund Freud.'Eric Mosbacher', ''The Times'', 10 July 1998, p.25 Life Eric Mosbacher was born in London. He was educated at St Paul's School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating in 1924 in French and Italian. After working on local newspapers, he worked for the ''Daily Express'' and then the ''Evening Standard''. He also worked as assistant editor of the weekly ''Everyman'' and editor of ''Anglo-American News'', the London journal of the American Chamber of Commerce. Mosbacher's wife, Gwenda David, introduced him to the work of Ignazio Silone, and the pair translated Silone's anti-fascist novel '' Fontamara'' in 1934. Often working in collaboration with his wife, Mosbacher continued translating in parallel with his other jobs. During World War II, Mosbacher worked as an interpreter interrogating I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1937. Events *January 9 – The first issue of '' Look'' magazine goes on sale in the United States. *January 19 – BBC Television broadcasts ''The Underground Murder Mystery'' by J. Bissell Thomas from London, the first play to be written for television. *February 6 – John Steinbeck's novella of the Great Depression, ''Of Mice and Men'', appears in the United States. *April – The Irish writers Elizabeth Bowen and Seán Ó Faoláin first meet, in London. *May 14 – BBC Television broadcasts a 30-minute excerpt of ''Twelfth Night'', the first known television broadcast of a Shakespeare piece. The cast includes Peggy Ashcroft and Greer Garson. *May 21 – Penguin Books in the U.K. launches Pelican Books, a sixpenny paperback non-fiction imprint, with a two-volume edition of George Bernard Shaw's '' The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism''. *June **The British science fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Godrèche
Judith Godrèche (; born 23 March 1972 in Paris) is a French actress, author and feminist activist, who has appeared in more than 30 films. Early life Judith Godrèche was born in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. Her father is a psychoanalyst, and her mother a child therapist. Her parents separated when she was eight years old. Her father is Jewish; his parents were Holocaust survivors from Poland and Russia who changed their surname from Goldreich. After being discovered for her first role at the age of 14, Godrèche left school and moved away from her parents to begin her acting career. In 1987, at the age of 14, she was in a relationship with director Benoît Jacquot, 25 years her senior, who was directing her in ''The Disenchanted''. In later years, Godrèche would accuse Jacquot of raping her. Career Her early work included commercial modeling for a Japanese chocolate maker, as well as a teen magazine. Her first film appearance was as Claudia Cardinale's daughter in ''L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Zamachowski
Zbigniew Zamachowski (; born 17 July 1961) is a Polish actor. He is a two-time recipient of the Polish Academy Award for Best Actor. Life and career He was born on 17 July 1961 in Brzeziny near Łódź. Zamachowski graduated from the actor's faculty of the National Film School in Łódź. He began his acting career in 1981 and in 1989 had a co-starring role in Part Ten ''(Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Goods)'' of director Krzysztof Kieślowski's film series, ''Dekalog''. Four years later, Kieślowski cast him as the lead character, "Karol Karol", in '' Three Colors: White'', the second of his acclaimed Three Colors trilogy. He is a two-time winner of Polish Film Awards for his roles in Robert Gliński's film ''Hi, Tereska'' (2001) and Andrzej Jakimowski's film drama ''Zmróż oczy'' (2004). His other notable roles are featured in Kazimierz Kutz's film '' Colonel Kwiatkowski'' (1996), Jerzy Hoffman's historical film '' With Fire and Sword'' (1999) and Andrzej Wajda's b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beata Poźniak
Beata Poźniak (; born 30 April 1960) is a Polish-American actress, film director, poet, painter and an Earphones Award-winning narrator. She is also a human rights defender, human rights activist who introduced the first bill in the history of US Congress to officially recognize International Women's Day in the United States. Pozniak won the prestigious Voice Arts Award in the "Outstanding Video Game Character - Best Performance" category for her role of Skarlet, the Blood Queen in Mortal Kombat 11 starring alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. In thirty years of Mortal Kombat's franchise, Pozniak is the first and only actress that won in the Best Performance Category. Early life Poźniak was born in Gdańsk, Poland. Her mother was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, and her father's family is from Ukraine. Her parents divorced when she was six years old and she grew up with a single mother in Soviet Union, Soviet-ruled Poland during the Cold War. She eventually p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Stephens
Sir Robert Graham Stephens (14 July 193112 November 1995) was an English actor in the early years of Britain's Royal National Theatre. Early life Stephens was born in Shirehampton, Bristol, in 1931, the eldest of three children of shipyard labourer and costing surveyor Reuben Stephens (19051985) and chocolate-factory worker Gladys Millicent (née Deverill; 19061975). When aged 18, he won a scholarship to Esme Church's Bradford Civic Theatre School in Yorkshire, where he met his first wife Nora, a fellow student. Career Stephens's first professional engagement was with the Caryl Jenner Mobile Theatre, which he followed in 1951 by a year of more challenging parts in repertory at the Royalty Theatre, Morecambe, followed by seasons of touring and at the Hippodrome, Preston. London director Tony Richardson saw a performance at the Royalty; this led to an offer of a place in the "momentous" first season of English Stage Company at the Royal Court in 1956. Stephens appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danuta Borchardt
Danuta is a Polish feminine given name. Its diminutive is Danusia. Notable people named Danuta include: *Danuta Bartoszek (born 1961), long-distance runner for Canada * Danuta Bułkowska (born 1959), former Polish champion in high jumping * Danuta Dmowska (born 1982), Polish fencer and World Épée Champion 2005 * Danuta Gleed (1946–1996), Canadian writer of Polish origin * Danuta Hojarska (born 1960), Polish politician, member of the Sejm *Danuta Hübner (born 1948), Polish economist, academic, and policy maker *Danuta Jazłowiecka (born 1957), Polish politician, member of the Sejm *Danuta Kobylińska-Walas (born 1931), Polish Sea Captain *Danuta Kordaczuk (1939–1988), Polish Olympic volleyball player *Danuta Kozák (born 1987), Hungarian Olympic sprint canoer *Danuta Lato (born 1963), Polish actress, model and singer in the 1980s and 1990s *Danuta Pietraszewska (born 1947), Polish politician, member of the Sejm *Danuta Szaflarska (1915–2017), Polish screen and stage actress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crispin Glover
Crispin Hellion Glover (born April 20, 1964) is an American actor, filmmaker and artist. He is known for portraying eccentricity (behavior), eccentric Character actor, character roles on screen. His breakout role was as George McFly in ''Back to the Future'' (1985), which he followed by playing Layne, one of the leading roles in ''River's Edge'' (1986). Through the 1990s, Glover garnered attention for portraying smaller but notable roles, including Cousin Del in ''Wild at Heart (film), Wild at Heart'' (1990), Andy Warhol in ''The Doors (film), The Doors'' (1991), Bobby McBurney in ''What's Eating Gilbert Grape'' (1993) and the Train Fireman in ''Dead Man'' (1995). Starting with his role as the Thin Man in ''Charlie's Angels (2000 film), Charlie's Angels'' (2000), he began to star in more mainstream films. The roles in these films include reprising his Thin Man role in ''Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle'' (2003), portraying the titular character in ''Willard (2003 film), Willard'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
