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02870aam a22004218i 4500 001 8CF4D7E4F0B811EE9EC0998A3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240402011628 008 231030t20242023nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2023049608 020 $a 0802162525 020 $a 9780802162526 040 $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h pol 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-pl--- 050 00 $a PG7158.G669 $b O6413 2024 082 00 $a 891.85373 $2 23/eng/20231204 100 1 $a Gombrowicz, Witold, $e author. 240 10 $a OpÄtani. $l English. 245 14 $a The possessed / $c Witold Gombrowicz ; translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ; with an introduction by Adam Thirlwell. 250 $a First Grove Atlantic paperback edition. 263 $a 2403. 264 1 $a New York : $b Black Cat, $c 2024. 300 $a xiii, 395 pages ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a "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 OchoÅowska, 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Conflict of generations $z Poland $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Social classes $z Poland $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Intergenerational relations $z Poland $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Haunted castles $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Poland $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Gothic fiction. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft. 700 1 $a Lloyd-Jones, Antonia, $e translator. 941 $a 2 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240402012829.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240402011837.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8CF4D7E4F0B811EE9EC0998A3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search