Gombrowicz Witold:
Bacacay
Translator: BillJohnston
Archipelago Books , 2004
Hardcover, 250 pages
Size: 197x165 mm
ISBN: 9780972869294
ISBN-10: 0972869298
Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969), The Single Most Important Polish Prose Writer Of The 20Th Century, Spent Much Of His Life In France And Argentina (Bacacay Was The Street He Lived On In Buenos Aires). His Novels Include Ferdydurke, Trans-Atlantyk, Cosmos, And Pornografia. Awarded The Prix Formentor (1967).
Bill Johnston
Bill Johnston Is Director Of The Polish Studies Center At Indiana University. In Addition To Jerzy Pilch, He Has Translated The Work Of Witold Gombrowicz, Magdalena Tulli, And Stefan Zeromski, Among Others. In 1999 He Received A National Endowment For The Arts Poetry Fellowship For Translation, In 2005 He Was Awarded A National Endowment For The Humanities Fellowship, And In 2008 He Won The Inaugural Found In Translation Award--Presented Annually To The Translator Of The Finest Polish-English Literary Translation Of The Year--For Tadeusz Rozewicz's New Poems.

