Particularize Books During Bakakaï

Original Title:	Bakakaj
ISBN:	8472230872 (ISBN13: 9788472230873)
Edition Language:	Spanish

Bakakaï Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

Itemize Epithetical Books Bakakaï

Title	:	Bakakaï
Author	:	Witold Gombrowicz
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Tusquets Marginales
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	1986 by Tusquets (first published 1933)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. European Literature. Polish Literature. Cultural. Poland. Literature

Interpretation As Books Bakakaï

Bakakaï no es simplemente una palabra exótica evocadora de misteriosas aventuras, sino también el nombre de una calle de Buenos Aires y el título de este libro de Witold Gombrowicz que tiene una historia muy larga y entretenida.

En 1933, en Cracovia. Gombrowicz publicó un libro que contenía sus primeros siete cuentos, escritos entre 1926 y 1932. Más tarde, en 1957, vuelve a recogerlos en otro libro, esta vez ya titulado Bakakaï, añadiéndoles tres cuentos más, escritos entre 1933 y 1946. Curiosamente, dispone los textos en orden cronológico inverso, de modo que el último en el índice es, de hecho, su primera obra escrita. Por su naturaleza profundamente impúdica, Bakakaï no vio la luz en la España franquista hasta que, en 1970, Tusquets Editores hizo el primer intento reduciéndolo a tres cuentos, publicados con el título de uno de ellos, La virginidad. Finalmente, en 1974, también en traducción del escritor mexicano Sergio Pitol, apareció Bakakaï en Barral Editores con sus diez cuentos completos. Nos alegra ahora poder rescatar otra vez esta obra de esa espléndida, pero a la vez desafortunada, lista de los libros «inencontrables».

Poco antes de morir, Witold Gombrowicz definía así este libro suyo : «Cuando releo estos cuentos lejanos, advierto que hay riqueza en ellos y que vibran sorprendentes cortocircuitos. Confieso, no obstante, que en estas páginas hay un elemento morboso, repelente, repugnante incluso. Es cierto. Reconozcamos a pesar de todo que esos contenidos repelentes pierden repugnancia al convertirse en elementos de la Forma ; su papel es funcional, obedecen a un fin superior : a la creación artística». Hoy, nadie pone ya en duda esta afirmación autojustificativa : Bakakaï forma parte ya de la obra de uno de los grandes escritores de nuestro siglo.

Rating Epithetical Books Bakakaï

Ratings: 3.94 From 754 Users | 52 Reviews

Assessment Epithetical Books Bakakaï

Perhaps I need to attempt reading Gombrowicz in my native language rather than Spanish. Or maybe I need to read closer and with more observation. As one may notice, I'm finding an abyss between what I have heard and read from other readers and world literature enthusiasts, and my experience and chores of reading the author. There is a chasm between Gombrowicz and I. Funny and bizarre, yes, these short stories are cracks at institutionalized ideas and ways of life, especially the aristocratic



if you like the other ones you'd like this. kinda more modern Gogol.

This goes really high up on my list of favorite story collections. Unique, grotesquely weird at times and very funny. One of those works that makes you eager to read everything else available from the author.

Very weird and creative short stories. This is one of the craziest books I think I've ever read. The cover blurb mentions the story about erotic lepers, and the one about aristocrats eating a vegetarian meal made out of human flesh. those are some of the more normal ones.My favorite story was "The Events on the Banbury." Although I didn't really understand what was happening, it made me feel like I was pleasantly losing my mind in some crazed silly dream, which is actually pretty cool.

There are perfect moments in these stories:When I do something well, I feel suspended on the inscrutable smiles of women, horses, frogs, dogs and bees.Virginity - a stunning combination of physics and metaphysics, abstract and concrete - from a minor bodily detail there flows an entire sea of idealism and wonders that are glaringly at odds with our sorry reality. When I kiss a lady's hand I lick it moistly, after which I quickly take out my handkerchief: "Oh, pardon me! "I say, and wipe it with

(Read it in Bosnian translation.) The question is how much of this craziness can one take? Every character has a mania, some of them more unbearable than others. I could have done without the extensive descriptions of marine and submarine tortures, but I suppose the violence is a part of the point. Two stories struck me as especially funny, the one about virginity where the idealized maiden wants to gnaw on bones from the garbage and the one about a respectable upper-class guy who fetishizes