Existence in Words:Witold Gombrowicz’s Literary Quest in Translation", teraz jest tylko "Witold Gombrowicz in Translation

My research focuses on the significant differences between Polish and Spanish works by Witold Gombrowicz, which (though they were written by Gombrowicz himself) are surprisingly often forgotten about. At its core, my presentation addresses a larger, universal question: how do we depict a faithful image of life in literature? That is, how can we make such the ungraspable, individual topic of life into something that is conveyable worldwide or across borders? My research identifies that Gombrowicz's answer to this question actually lies in his Spanish works, and it explains that Gombrowicz's answer to this lies in music. By exploring this question, the presentation touches on broader issues of cultural communication and artistic interpretation according to this core figure of the Polish literary canon