“Pornography” is one of the most popular novels by the famous Polish writer and playwright Witold Gombrowicz. The novel takes place in wartime Poland, but historical realities are only the backdrop for a gripping plot about youth and love.__________________________ Compared to Gombrowicz’s previous novels, “Pornography” is a more traditional and holistic work, perfect in composition and impeccably dark. Gombrowicz, this apostle of immaturity, with astonishing maturity subordinated both his forms of quest and his subconscious complexes to the principles of art, creating, as he says in his own preface to the English edition, “a noble, classical novel, a sensuous-metaphysical novel.” (John Updike)