Trans-Atlantik

Witold Gombrowicz, one of the most important writers of the 20th century, deals with the experience of immigration and deterritorialization, the main dilemma of the modern world people, in one of his masterpieces , Trans-Atlantic . This unique novel, inspired by old legends and narrative techniques, is perhaps the author's most personal work. II. Trans-Atlantic , which tells the joyful and absurd adventures of a young writer who landed in Argentina after the Nazis invaded his country on the eve of World War II and severed his ties with both his homeland and the self-destructing mainland, is essentially about the individual's reckoning with the state and history in a world that has lost its compass.

Trans-Atlantic , which bears traces of Gombrowicz's own experiences as an exile, is coated with humor and satire, woven with dark predictions about war and its horrors, takes sides with the individual, society and imagination against the narrow and empty patterns of nationalism, sexism and warmongering, and is radical and daring. It is a rebellion...

“Gombrowicz's earlier and later works are also wonderful, but Trans-Atlantic is superior. […] The subtle polyphony of the Trans-Atlantic derives its striking effect from Gombrowicz's stylization. A work of art can only be described as 'great' when its author invents crucial methods.

and he wins by using these methods so skillfully that no one who follows him can successfully imitate them. This is what is at stake in the Trans-Atlantic.”

-Stanislaw Baranczak-

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Cover Design: Emir Tali
Editor: Cem Alpan

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 13.5 x 19.5

First Print Year: 2017

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Number of Pages: 165

Media Type: Paperback