„Kosmos” jako gabinet luster. Rekonesans
"Cosmos" as a Mirror Cabinet. A Reconnaissance

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to read Witold Gombrowicz’s last novel as a text in which a radical experiment in the form of incredible narration is made. Both the ontological status of characters and time and space coordinates are here subject to influence of a problematic ex post short story. Other equally important part of the present considerations consists of the analyses of intertextual relations: in "Cosmos" they are to prove the presence of stylistic-existential idiom which accompanies the procedures of choices and pre-texts transformations. Presented in this way, the poetological problems lead to formulation of a thesis referring to the literary genetics of the novel in question: "Cosmos" eventually proves to be an exceptional case of modernistic psychomachy.

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