Witold Gombrowicz 
The Possessed [EPUB ebook] 

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From “a master of 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 Ochołowska, 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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Witold Gombrowicz (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.

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Língua Inglês ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 288 ● ISBN 9780802162533 ● Tamanho do arquivo 0.8 MB ● Tradutor Antonia Lloyd-Jones ● Editora Grove Atlantic ● Publicado 2024 ● Carregável 24 meses ● Moeda EUR ● ID 9363737 ● Proteção contra cópia Adobe DRM
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