It is a pastiche of gothic and serial novels in the vein of Horace Walpole and Eugène Sue.
[1] The novel was serialised in the summer 1939 in two Polish daily newspapers, under the pseudonym Zdzisław Niewieski.
[2] Only the first two parts were published before the outbreak of World War II.
Witold Gombrowicz never claimed authorship of the work until a few days before his death in 1969.
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