Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whanau a Gombrowicz i Małoszyce e tata ana ki Opatów, katahi ka whanau mai i Radom Governorate, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, ki tetahi whanau rangatira rangatira. Ko ia te whakaotinga o nga tamariki tokowha a Jan me Antonina (née Ścibor-Kotkowska o te Clan o Ostoja). I roto i tētahi wāhanga o tōna oranga, "A Kind of Testament", i tuhituhi ia i noho tōna whānau mō ngā tau e 400 i Rītū i runga i tētahi whenua i waenganui o Vilnius me Kaunas, engari i whakakorehia i muri i te whakapae o tōna tupuna i te whai wāhi ki te whakaekenga o Rītū o Lithuania.
Te Whakatupuranga o Hanuere 1863. I muri mai ka whakaahuatia e ia tana takenga mai o te whanau me te mana o te hapori hei tauira wawe o te whakaaro mo te wa roa o te "i waenga" ("i waenga"). I te tau 1911 ka neke tona whanau ki Warsaw. I muri i tana whakaoti i tana maatauranga i te Whare Wananga o Saint Stanislaus Kostka i te 1922, i ako a Gombrowicz i te ture i te Whare Wananga o Warsaw, i whiwhi i te MJur i te 1927. I noho ia mo te tau i Paris, i reira i ako ai ia i te Institute of Higher International Studies (French: "Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales"). Kaore ia i kaha ki ana akoranga, engari ko tana wa i Parani i whakapiri tonu ia ki etahi atu kaiarahi rangatahi. I haere hoki ia ki te Moana-a-Kiwa.