This article examines the unconventional approach to boredom in Witold Gombrowicz’s “The Events on the Banbury.” The story takes place on a ship, where an overwhelming ennui, synonymous with an existential impasse, is the result of a clash between two contradictory aspirations – the human need for purity and order, and the urge to transgress the borders of law and identity, which is greatly impacted by the closeness and intensity of the extra-human world. Boredom is a force coming from the realm of unbridled nature and irrational impulses. It is a peril to the integrality of the human “I,” thus the protagonist rejects it in disgust. However, boredom is also an experience that reveals the artificiality of the existing rules and leads to imagining alternatives. On the Banbury, a fantasy produced by boredom provokes the sailors to a mutiny affirming shamelessness and an excess of homoerotic lust.