In Witold Gombrowicz's final and most challenging novel, two young men escape to a rural guesthouse, only to be confronted by a series of bizarre and unsettling signs—a hanged sparrow, a piece of wood, and strange markings. The narrator becomes pathologically obsessed with these details, desperately trying to forge connections and impose order on a chaotic reality. Part detective story, part philosophical inquiry, Cosmos is a profound and darkly comic exploration of the human mind's desperate search for meaning in an absurd universe, questioning the very nature of perception and reality itself.