Obsession

A young literary critic and failure, Roland Mitchell, believes that he is late and has missed all the most interesting things. Even about the subject of his research, the Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ashe, everything has already been written for him, and he only has to make occasional small notes. Everything changes when he accidentally finds Ashe's passionate letter, addressed not to his wife. Trying to establish the mysterious addressee, Roland plunges into a literary detective story, where there will be Gothic wastelands and dug graves, secrets from the past and spiritual seances, works stolen, lost and found, and finally a love that overcomes time and unites eras. "Obsession" by A. S. Byett won the Booker Prize in 1990 and was recognized by the general public and critics as one of the most important postmodern British novels. This is one of the most poignant love letters to books and very different readers, a story about how we explain ourselves to ourselves through the prism of our cultural heritage.