Editing Witold Gombrowicz (section)

===Last years in Europe===
[[File:Gombrowicz grave.JPG|thumb|Gombrowicz's grave in Vence]]

In the 1960s Gombrowicz became recognised globally, and many of his works were translated, including ''Pornografia'' (''Pornography'') and ''Kosmos'' (''Cosmos''). His dramas were staged in theatres around the world, especially in France, Germany and Sweden.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://culture.pl/en/artist/witold-gombrowicz |title=Witold Gombrowicz |access-date=26 March 2020}}</ref>

Having received a scholarship from the [[Ford Foundation]], Gombrowicz returned to Europe in 1963. In April 1963 he embarked on an Italian ship, landing at Cannes and then taking a train to Paris. A record of the journey can be found in his diary. Gombrowicz stayed for a year in West Berlin, where he endured a slanderous campaign organised by the Polish authorities.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kowalska|first=Magdalena|date=2004|title=Gombrowicz w Berlinie : czyli Gombrowicz uwikłany w historię|url=http://bazhum.muzhp.pl/media//files/Pamietnik_Literacki_czasopismo_kwartalne_poswiecone_historii_i_krytyce_literatury_polskiej/Pamietnik_Literacki_czasopismo_kwartalne_poswiecone_historii_i_krytyce_literatury_polskiej-r2004-t95-n4/Pamietnik_Literacki_czasopismo_kwartalne_poswiecone_historii_i_krytyce_literatury_polskiej-r2004-t95-n4-s93-110/Pamietnik_Literacki_czasopismo_kwartalne_poswiecone_historii_i_krytyce_literatury_polskiej-r2004-t95-n4-s93-110.pdf|journal=Pamiętnik Literacki [Literary Memoir]|language=pl|publisher=IBL PAN|volume=95|issue=4|pages=39–110|issn=0031-0514|via=bazhum.muzhp.pl}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://witoldgombrowicz.com/pl/wgbio/europa-1963-1970/wgeuropa|title=O krok od Polski : Berlin (1963-1964)|website=witoldgombrowicz.com|access-date=December 28, 2017}}</ref> His health deteriorated during this stay, and he was unable to return to Argentina. He went back to France in 1964 and spent three months in Royaumont Abbey, near Paris, where he met Rita Labrosse, a Canadian from Montreal who studied contemporary literature. In 1964 he moved to the Côte d'Azur in the south of France with Labrosse, whom he employed as his secretary. He spent the rest of his life in [[Vence]], near Nice.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.openedition.org/ceup/1118 |title=Modernism: Representations of national culture |access-date=26 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://culture.pl/en/article/what-you-didnt-know-about-gombrowicz |title=What You Didn't Know About Gombrowicz… |access-date=26 March 2020}}</ref>

Gombrowicz's health prevented him from thoroughly benefiting from his late renown. It worsened notably in spring 1964; he became bedridden and was unable to write. In May 1967 he was awarded the [[Prix Formentor|Prix International]]. The following year, on December 28, he married Labrosse. On the initiative of his friend [[Dominique de Roux]], who hoped to cheer him up, he gave a series of 13 lectures on the history of philosophy to de Roux and Labrosse, ironically titled "Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes", which de Roux transcribed. The lectures began with Kant and ended with existentialism. The series ended before Gombrowicz could deliver the last part, interrupted by his death on July 24, 1969.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.gombrowicz.net/-Guide-to-philosophy-in-six-hours-.html |title=Guide to philosophy in six hours and fifteen minutes |publisher=Gombrowitz.net}}</ref><ref>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hkUhDi-q5mkC&pg=PA235 |title=The Rhetoric of Failure: Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism |author=Ziarek, Ewa Płonowska |date=January 1995 |page=235|publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=9780791427118 }}</ref> He was buried in the cemetery in Vence.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://frenchriviera.travel/vence/ |title=Vence, Gombrowicz's city |access-date=26 March 2020}}</ref><!--More about this period on: [https://witoldgombrowicz.com/en/wgbio/europe-1963-1970/wgeurope witoldgombrowicz.com]-->