"In 1995 the German critic Olaf Kühl
resuscitated the question of the author’s suppressed homosexual
desire. Avoiding the kind of reductive biographical diagnosis that
marred Sandauer’s analysis, Kühl condemns the
‘“entkörperlichende” und
“desexualisierende” Allegorese’ that characterized
most discussions of Gombrowicz’s
eroticism since the 1960s. He reverses the trend of reading the
concrete and physical in Gombrowicz’s work as a signifier for the
abstract and metaphysical, and proposes to view Form as a metaphor for
the body, and not the body as a metaphor for Form. Kühl’s work represents a milestone in Gombrowicz scholarship
in that it takes his eroticism seriously without either reducing it to
sensational trivia or subjugating it to his own programmatic writings.
Following Kühl other critics have tackled Gombrowicz’s
formal and stylistic constructions as manifestations of
‘unspeakable’ desire."
(Tul'si Kamila Bhambry, Creativity and Control. Towards a Model of Authorship in Witold Gombrowicz. Dissertation UCL 2013)