Gombrowicz's strange, bracing final novel probes the divide between young and old while providing a grotesque evocation of obsession. While recuperating from wartime warsaw in the polish countryside, the unnamed narrator...Gombrowicz's strange, bracing final novel probes the divide between young and old while providing a grotesque evocation of obsession. While recuperating from wartime warsaw in the polish countryside, the unnamed narrator and his friend, fryderyk, attempt to force amour between two local youths, karol and henia, as a kind of a lewd entertainment.