Diario Argentino. Editorial Sudamericana. Buenos Aires, 1968.

Quarto (14 cm x 20 cm / 5.51 x 7.87 in), 199 pp., Includes Half-title and Title page, this one with the owner's signature and date. Paperback publisher binding. Good copy, which belonged to the journalist and editor Ramiro de Casasbellas.

Considered one of the best writers' diaries of the 20th century, he reflects on literature, philosophy, and on his status as an exiled Polish writer. Let's read two Argentines writing about Gombrowicz: “What happens when one belongs to a secondary culture? What happens when one writes in a marginal language? Gombrowicz reflects on these questions in his Diary and Argentine culture serves as a laboratory to experiment with his hypothesis. At this point Borges and Gombrowicz come closer" wrote Ricardo Piglia, while Ernesto Sábato reflected: "Gombrowicz tells his compatriots in his Diary not to try to rival the West and its forms, but to try to become aware of the force that it implies its own unfinished form, its own unfinished immaturity; with all that this implies of fresh and frank freedom in a world of fossilized forms. In short, he recommends and practices Dionysian barbarism himself, turning his youth and immaturity into a renewing power. Good lesson for us”.

EM