The Possessed
Autor Witold Gombrowicz Traducere de Antonia Lloyd-Jonesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 oct 2023
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 180427061X
Pagini: 417
Dimensiuni: 120 x 195 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: FABER AND FABER LTD
Colecția Fitzcarraldo Editions
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.