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...appetite for culture and truly, madly, deeply conversant with every new development in fiction, philosophy, film and art. With the great turbines of her critical judgment turning, Sontag patrolled the latest edges of world culture, bringing back news of the philosophers Simone Weil and Walter Benjamin, the novelist Witold Gombrowicz, the critic Roland Barthes, the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard...
...essays in her new collection display a wide interest in literature, film, dance, photography, criticism and sometimes politics (though her 1999 essay on Kosovo is noticeably absent). The literary essays tend to deal with established but mildly obscure European litterateurs (Danilo Kis, Witold Gombrowicz, W.G. Sebald, Andrzej Zagajewski). The rest of the pieces stick to art films, opera and dance. Her inimitably terse prose is recognizable from her previous criticism, particularly her tendency to issue elliptical, almost aphoristic judgments at an essay’s end. In addition, a few creative pieces—one an accompaniment for a Jasper...
They talk of a lean, fierce beauty with the presence and intensity to scald the screen, a very young actress with the looks and cold nerve to strip off her clothes at the end of Witold Gombrowicz's stage drama, The Operetta, as her role required, and finish the play stark naked. She was a star in Warsaw's film and television Industry, and on the stage of the city's famed Drama Theater, since her second year at the Academy of Theatrical Arts. A year and a half after she left Warsaw, almost certainly...
COSMOS by Witold Gombrowicz. 166 pages. Grove...
...more skilled practitioners of the sexual shell game was Witold Gombrowicz, a Polish writer who spent much of his adult life in Argentina, totally unknown to the world. He died at 64 in France last year, after enjoying a muffled underground explosion of fame. Cosmos won the $20,000 International Prize for Literature. It is an achingly attenuated suspense story -except that it turns out that there is no object to the chase, no rich cache of contraband drugs, no key diplomatic documents and no blondes. Just a hanged sparrow, a hanged cat, a mysterious bit of wood suspended...