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From: Artforum
Date: 20071201
Author:Fudala, Tomasz

LAST JUNE, Poland's education minister, Roman Giertych, announced that Witold Gombrowicz's novels would no longer be taught in the nation's public schools. The decision was hardly unique. Indeed, it was part of a broader initiative to shield Polish children from undesirables including Joseph Conrad, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Franz Kafka. But Gombrowicz (1904-1969) was the focus of the effort. Perhaps this is because the author of Ferdydurke (1937) specialized in viciously witty assaults on hypocrisy, xenophobia, goonsquad populism, and other qualities that Giertych and his party, the ...

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