Word: gombrowicz
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...magistrate finds the owner dead. A heart attack, obviously. But was it? Why are mother, son and daughter so rudely anxious to have the judge leave? Why are they so secretive, so oddly lacking in true grief? Combining the technique of the detective story with Dostoevskian insights, Author Witold Gombrowicz unravels a skein of conflicting family emotions and so clears the way to a final tragedy that is as terrible as it is inevitable. A slip anywhere would have undone the entire story. There are no slips...