His forebear Gombrowicz never allowed his novels to side wholly with either the tyranny of form or the anarchy of chaos.

Mr. Zulawski, following Gombrowicz’s lead, blithely discards narrative logic, and delights in finding images that will do justice to this writer’s manic inventiveness.

He said "Cosmos," based on a book by Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz, is a "metaphysical noir thriller."