The Possessed - Witold Gombrowicz

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 OchoÅ‚owska, a beautiful and promising player whose bourgeois family has fallen upon difficult circumstances.... Zobrazit více