Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A mụrụ Gombrowicz na Małoszyce dị nso na Opatów, mgbe ahụ na Radom Governorate, Congress Poland, Alaeze Ukwu Russia, n'ezinụlọ ndị ọgaranya. Ọ bụ ọdụdụ nwa n'ime ụmụ anọ nke Jan na Antonina (née Ścibor-Kotkowska nke Ostoja Clan). N'otu akụkọ ndụ ya, "A Kind of Testament", o dere na ezinụlọ ya ebiela afọ 400 na Lithuania n'otu ala dị n'etiti Vilnius na Kaunas mana a chụpụrụ ha mgbe e boro nna nna ya ebubo na ọ na-ekere òkè na
Ọgba aghara Jenụwarị nke 1863. O mechara kọwaa nzụlite ezinụlọ ya na ọnọdụ ya n'etiti ọha mmadụ dị ka ihe atụ mbụ nke inwe mmetụta nke ịnọ "n'etiti" ("entre") ruo ogologo ndụ ya. Na 1911 ezinụlọ ya kwagara Warsaw. Mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Saint Stanislaus Kostka's Gymnasium na 1922, Gombrowicz gụrụ akwụkwọ iwu na Mahadum Warsaw, wee nweta MJur na 1927. Ọ nọrọ otu afọ na Paris, ebe ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na Institute of Higher International Studies (French: "Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales"). Ọ naghị arụsi ọrụ ike n'ọmụmụ ihe ya, mana oge ya na France mere ka ya na ndị ntorobịa ndị ọzọ nwere ọgụgụ isi na-akpakọrịta mgbe niile. Ọ gakwara n'Oké Osimiri Mediterenian.