By Witold Gombrowicz
Based loosely on Gombrowicz’s personal studies as an expatriate, Trans-Atlantyk is steeped in humor and sharply pointed satire, interlaced with darkish visions of warfare and its horrors, that entreats the person and society in most cases to upward thrust above the suffocating constraints of nationalistic, sexual, and patriotic mores. The novel's subject matters are common and its execution ingenious—a masterwork of twentieth-century literary artwork from an writer whom John Updike referred to as “one of the profoundest of the past due moderns.”
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For all of the resolution I in simple terms heard their Gasping for Breath, Heavy, exhausted, they usually checked out me with it seems that unseeing eyes, and Baron stated: “Be quiet, for God’s sake, be quiet! ” therefore we take a seat, continue silent. unexpectedly Ciumkała moved his leg and glued his spur into Baron’s thigh! Baron screamed in negative soreness yet didn’t circulation for worry that relocating could make the barb move even deeper . . . and stuck as though in a snare, he sat nonetheless, sat nonetheless . . . after it slow Pitskal shrieked and glued his spur into Ciumkała who, within the spur’s snare, paled, become stone. And back they Sat nonetheless. Hours handed during this silent sitting, whereas I dared now not breathe, for worry that a type of Madmen might stick a spur into me. past counting have been the various wildest suggestions that tortured me, and, on these unshaven countenances, sunken, stretched like Christ at the move and also burning like dwelling Hell, I learn the main negative verdicts. while the door all of sudden opened none except the outdated Accountant, a similar Accountant who had taught me easy methods to write files into the Books, that very Accountant in his personal individual seemed! The kindhearted Accountant! yet what a metamorphosis within the Accountant! Slowly, faded as a corpse, he’s forthcoming us, his lips twisted, jaw clenched, eye fastened in a stare, Trembling like an aspen tree . . . no much less, notwithstanding, used to be Baron’s, Pitskal’s, and Ciumkała’s trembling, no much less their possible mortal tension! He had a spur hooked up to his boot and, having come nearer, he stood correct subsequent to me, and while no one acknowledged a notice, after they have been virtually preserving their breath, I, like a corpse, now not announcing a note, no longer respiring, I sat . . . as a result, most likely for 3 or 4 hours we hence Sat, subsequent to one another, immobile, speechless, whereas whatever grew, grew, grew among Us and, whilst possibly it grew so far as the Heavens, while it turned better, extra strong than the complete global, the Accountant caught his Spur into me jab, jab! . . . Into my calf he caught it! Which made me fall to the floor within the such a lot lousy and piercing ache . . . whereas he screamed, clutched his head. mendacity at the floor and hence feeling the acknowledged barb that had stuck me in a Snare, I now not moved in order to not accentuate discomfort with soreness. And back silence ensued, and lasted possibly or 3 hours. eventually, the Accountant sighed deeply and extremely softly stated: “Fasten a Spur to his boot. ” They therefore fixed a Spur to my correct shoe, whereas he acknowledged: “You now belong to the Society of the Chevaliers of the Spur, and also you are to hold out my Orders, and also to make sure that the others perform my orders. you're not to try any break out or treason, simply because they'll stick you with the Spur, and should you observe the slightest want for Treason or break out at the a part of anybody of your partners, you're to jab him with the Spur. And in the event you have been to forget to do that, they're going to jab you with theirs. And if the person who is meant to stay you with the Spur neglects to do it, one other considered one of you is to stay him with the Spur.