Volume 35, Number 6 · April 14, 1988
Something Childish
By John Bayley
Diary, Volume 1
by Witold Gombrowicz, edited by Jan Kott, translated by Lillian Vallee
Northwestern University Press, 232 pp., $12.95 (paper)
Every so often one runs across a sort of fugitive from the literary world, a volume that seems to be forever on the run, flitting across frontiers, denied a residence permit, only one jump ahead of the immigration authorities and the secret police. There is often an element of playing hard to get about such books, which makes them still more of a legend and increases the potential reader's curiosity.
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