I don’t even know what to say about this. It dragged on so much for me. The plot — about two guys from the city going to the countryside and shiping some random pair of sixteen-year-olds — somehow turned into a plan to murder some Ukrainian commander. And then that ending. Literally the only moment in the whole book where I had to stop and think about what just happened. This was supposed to be a warm-up before Ferdydurke and a philosophy course by Gombrowicz — now I’m genuinely terrified of what’s going on in his head.