"But let me tell you about another, even more curious adventure. .... 

    But there, among the branches was something peculiar and       strange, though at first I could not make out exactly what it was. .... Extraordinary. A hanged bird. A hanged sparrow. This shrieking eccentricity indicated that a human hand had penetrated this act." 

              - protagonist in Cosmos, by Witold Gombrowicz

Thus begins the adventure of two wandering students on holiday, as they start an absurd investigation into the act of the hanged sparrow, connecting both the mundane and ordinary and occasionally the outrageous as part of the case.

Continue on to: (A) The Case           (B) Gombrowicz and Others