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The Possessed by Witold Gombrowicz, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translation), Adam Thirlwell (introduction) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Possessed about?
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 & playful subversion of the form. With dreams of escaping his small-town existence & 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 & promising player whose bourgeois family has fallen upon difficult circumstances. But no sooner has he arrived than the relationship with his pupil develops into one of twisted love & hate, & he becomes embroiled in the fantastic happenings taking place at the dilapidated castle nearby. Haunted kitchens, bewitched towels, conniving secretaries & famous clairvoyants all conspire to determine the fate of the young lovers & 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.°°°Witold Gombrowicz (1904–69) is one of the twentieth century’s most enduring avant-garde writers. He wrote
Who reads The Possessed?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Witold Gombrowicz, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translation), Adam Thirlwell (introduction)
- Publisher
- Grove Atlantic
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780802162533
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, World Fiction
- Rating
- 4.26 / 5 (26 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14