The Possessed
Autor Witold Gombrowicz Traducere de Antonia Lloyd-Jonesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 mar 2024
verbal burlesque [and] a connoisseur of psychological blackmail" (John Updike),
Witold Gombrowicz's harrowing and hilarious pastiche of the Gothic novel, now
in a new, authoritative English translation Witold Gombrowicz is considered by
many to be Poland's greatest modernist, and in The Possessed, he
demonstrates his playful brilliance and astonishing range by using the familiar
tropes of the Gothic novel to produce a darkly funny and lively subversion of
the form. With dreams of escaping his small-town existence and the limitations
of his class, a young tennis coach travels to the heart of the Polish
countryside to train Maja Ocholowska, a beautiful and promising player whose
bourgeois family has fallen upon difficult circumstances. Yet as Maja and the
young man are alternately drawn to and repulsed by the other, they find
themselves embroiled in the fantastic happenings taking place at the
dilapidated castle nearby, where a mad prince haunts the halls, and bewitched
towels, conniving secretaries, famous clairvoyants, and uncanny doubles conspire
to determine the fate of the lovers. Serialized first in Poland in the days
preceding the Nazi invasion, and now translated directly into English for the
first time by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, The Possessed is a comic jewel, a
hair-raising thriller, and a provocative early masterpiece from the acclaimed
author of classics like Pornografia and Cosmos.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0802162525
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 137 x 208 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Grove Atlantic
Notă biografică
(1904-1969) is one of the twentieth century's most important modernists and
enduring avant-garde writers. His first novel, Ferdydurke, was published
in Poland in 1937, and he lived in exile in Argentina from the beginning of
World War II to 1963. Among many literary works, he is the author of his
three-volume Diaries, as well as the novels Trans-Atlantyk, Pornografia,
and Cosmos, winner of the 1967 International Prize for Literature.
Descriere
In The Possessed, Witold Gombrowicz, considered by many to be Poland’s greatest modernist, draws together the familiar tropes of the Gothic novel to produce a darkly funny and playful subversion of the form.
With dreams of escaping his small-town existence and the limitations of his status, a young tennis coach travels to the heart of the Polish countryside where he is to train Maja Ochołowska, a beautiful and promising player whose bourgeois family has fallen upon difficult circumstances. But no sooner has he arrived than his relationship with his pupil develops into one of twisted love and hate, and he becomes embroiled in the fantastic happenings taking place at the dilapidated castle nearby. Haunted kitchens, bewitched towels, conniving secretaries and famous clairvoyants all conspire to determine the fate of the young lovers and the mad prince residing in the castle.
Translated directly into English for the first time by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, The Possessed is a comic masterpiece that, despite being a literary pastiche, has all the hallmarks of Gombrowicz's typically provocative style.