Witold Gombrowicz was born in Poland in 1904, he studied law at Warsaw University and published his first book of short stories in 1933, four years later published his satirical novel experimental and Ferdydurke, which caused great scandal. In autumn 1939 the Polish, the writer embarked on a trip to South America that was organized by the promotional shipping company that owns the boat Chorbry, who arrived in Buenos Aires on August 21, 1939 A few days after the Nazis occupied Poland and world War began, which would leave the Polish writer stranded in Argentina for a long "casual" exile nearly 24 years, during which spent most of his literary life. In his new country life to journalism earned as an employee of the Bank of Poland and giving private lessons. On Argentina, in addition to his diary, he wrote in Argentine in his novel Pilgrimages and Trans-Atlantic. With the translation of his works into French, German and English began to gain international renown. When he began the return to Europe in 1963, was first in Berlin and from 1964 lived in Paris. In 1967 he won the prestigious International Publishers' Prize, Formentor, Mallorca, by Ferdydurke. Besides the aforementioned novels, wrote The Seduction (also known as pornography), Cosmos and Bacacay storybook. Among his plays are highlighted Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy and Marriage.