The Theater of Old Men: Measure for Measure with Gombrowicz’s Pornography
Marcin Czardybon (University of Warsaw)
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The article offers a comparative analysis of Witold Gombrowicz’s Pornography and William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. Shakespeare’s play provides a framework for a reinterpretation Gombrowicz’s late work. Previous readings of Pornography have focused mainly on Nietzschean intertexts. Analysing Pornography through references to Measure for Measure allows us to see this novel as a political treatise addressing the phenomenon of biopolitics.
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