Diary by Witold Gombrowicz

Author:Witold Gombrowicz
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Journal, Memoir
ISBN: 9780300118063
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1962-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

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Friday, Santiago

(Witold Gombrowicz, having arrived in Santiago, succumbed to a wave of belated eroticism, the same as before, years ago.… But this time the wave was strengthened by the miasma of this city of Indian blood, easy beauty, and hot sun. And this wave, all the more scandalous because of its belatedness, bore him away again into the vortex of foolishness and shame! But his mastery of these types of situations (which have become his specialty, because an artist must act on the borderline between shame and foolishness) shone once again… when, to be exact, instead of giving himself up passively to this madness like any ordinary drunk, he took this madness in hand and took to ordering it, thereby changing intoxication into drama. This, however, happened with the help of the pronouncement that he, Gombrowicz, he, Doctor Faustus, had come to Santiago with the aim of concluding a great discovery, that he had finally decided to find a way of linking old age to youth, so that a generation that was nearing its end could, in its twilight, draw new substance from youth, and experience the beginning once again… and, who knows, friends, if it is not within our power to find this mysterious key, which would allow our dying to experience, in its farewell, a taste of new life, to link ourselves to birth! Imagine! If, at first glance, salvation seems possible, it can be contained only in this!

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