Cosmos. Biblioteca Breve. Editorial Seix Barral, S.A. Barcelona, 1969.

Cosmos. Biblioteca Breve. Editorial Seix Barral, S.A. Barcelona, 1969.

Quarto, (12.5 cm x 19.5 cm / 4.92 x 7.67 in), 191 pp., (Includes Half-title, Title page), 1 sheet. With a signature: "Casasbellas 1970". Paperback publisher binding.

Written in 1965, this is the first edition in Spanish. "Cosmos" introduces us in an ordinary way - two boys who arrive at a country house and observe a sparrow hanging from a tree - in an extraordinary world, in a way, behind the scenes of the world. The chaotic existence and the fragile nature of the human mind appear, as the leitmotif of his literature, in this novel awarded with the Prix International de Littérature of 1967. With wet stamps on the cover and cover "Primera Plana - Biblioteca", magazine of which Ramiro de Casasbellas was director.

Witold Gombrowicz (Małoszyce, Poland, 1904 - Vence, France, 1969), novelist and playwright, was in our country invited as a Polish writer, when the Second World War began. He later wrote in his diary: “I went to Argentina by pure chance, only for two weeks, and if by chance of fate the war had not broken out during those two weeks, I would have returned to Poland, although I will not hide that when the die was cast and Argentina slammed on me, it was as if I finally heard myself. " He stayed in our country for twenty-four years.

Despite his short work, Gombrowicz is one of the most important avant-garde writers of the century. Corrosive and tragicomic, he was very critical of the alienation of the individual and his freedoms before the onslaught of nationalism, precisely in the framework of a world - and particularly his native Poland - that succumbed to German National Socialism. The poet Jorge Di Paola wrote about Gombrowicz: “This perpetual, involuntary exile, perhaps exiled from all conventional ideas and aesthetics, has in Argentina the fate of those who do not send the part. Revered by almost the entire post-Borgean generation, from Ricardo Piglia, through Germán García and Fogwill to Juan José Saer, and many more, his books are hardly found in any bookstore (...)”

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