Kronos and Literature

The publication of Witold Gombrowicz’s Kronos elicited a range of reactions from its readers: from affirmative to aggressive. The aggressive ranged from civil to brutal and rude. Jerzy Franczak (at the civil end of the spectrum) maintains that Kronos does not teach anything, does not aid the reader, and appears totally unnecessary—it does not pass the test of reading as literature.1 At the other end of the spectrum, expressed mainly in Internet forums, we find that the publication of the book is either a swindle on the part of the publisher (and editors, with me leading the way) or a nail in the coffin of this perverse and depraved writer

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