An important incident in this novel sees the schoolboy Siphon subjected to"violation by the ear" after a battle of grimaces with Mientus over the other boys' innocence.  
One character in this work attempts to woo the object of his affection by dancing in her bathroom and hiring a bum to stand outside her window with a green twig in his mouth. This work is interrupted by a fable in which the professors Philifor and Anti-Philifor shoot the limbs off each other's lovers. After his companion rapes the Youthfuls' maid the protagonist flees with him only to be set upon by villagers turned into dogs, and he later absconds with his cousin Isabel after his uncle nearly beats the stable boy Bert to death. An important incident in this novel sees the schoolboy Siphon subjected to"violation by the ear" after a battle of grimaces with Mientus over the other boys' innocence.  After waking up from a nightmare at the novel's beginning the protagonist is visited by Professor Pimko, who quizzes him on Latin grammar until he regresses to adolescence and enters the plot of his own novel. For ten points name this novel about Johnnie Kowalski, the masterpiece of Witold Gombrowicz.
One character in this work attempts to woo the object of his affection by dancing in her bathroom and hiring a bum to stand outside her window with a green twig in his mouth.
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