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Gombrowicz spent 24 years (1939-63) in voluntary exile in Argentina. His writings were banned in turn by the Nazis, the Stalinists, and the Polish government.
Gombrowicz described his first novel, Ferdydurke, as the "grotesque story of a gentleman who becomes a child because other people treat him like one." The dominant theme of his writings is the innate immaturity of human beings. He portrays humanity as incapable of understanding the world without depending on the spurious knowledge and shallow opinions of others. The resulting sadomasochistic relationships, in which individuals hide their own ignorance and uncertainty while constantly trying to expose it in others provide the substance of Gombrowicz' rather eccentric plots.

Pour heinrick,
l'enfant soleil qui a découvert l'ombre ;
pour qu'il sache que le crépuscule le plus
sombre
porte en son sein une aube transparente.
jérôme

"This is not a divisive thing," insisted McCartney spokesman Geoff Baker in London. "It's not Lennon or McCartney. Even if Paul did 95 percent or more on these songs, he's not asking that John's name be taken off.
"He just doesn't think it should be first."

I once wrote a song about Stephen Malkmus and gave a tape of it to a roadie at a Pavement show. "Will you give this to Stephen?" I asked. The roadie looked at me kindly, like he must have looked at all the Stephen maniacs, and said, "I'll make sure he gets it."
Years later, Malkmus said in an interview that 'kids' sometimes gave him tapes with songs about him: "They go, 'Steve Malkmus! Steve Malkmus!' Stuff like that."

Well, my lyrics were much better than that.