Author: PRUS, BOLESLAW (Aleksander G?owacki
Title: The Doll
Description: New York : Hippocrene / Dedalus Books, 1993.. First Hippocrene Edition (Orriginal published in Poland in 1890) 702 p. SOFTCOVER: (Orig. paperback, some pages bit creased, but still VERY GOOD copy) ¶ The Doll (Polish: Lalka) is the second of four acclaimed novels by the Polish writer Boles?aw Prus (real name Aleksander G?owacki). It was composed for periodical serialization in 1887–1889 and appeared in book form in 1890. Bo?eslaw Prusis often compared to Chekhov, and Prus’s masterpiece might be described as an intimate epic, a beautifully detailed, utterly absorbing exploration of life in late-nineteenth-century Warsaw, which is also a prophetic reckoning with some of the social forces—imperialism, nationalism, anti-Semitism among them—that would soon convulse Europe as never before. But The Doll is above all a briljant novel of character, dramatizing conflicting ideas through the various convictions, ambitions, confusions, and frustrations of an extensive and varied cast. At the center of the book are three men from three different generations. Prus’s fatally flawed hero is Wokulski, a successful businessman who yearns for recognition from Poland’s decadent aristocracy and falls desperately in love with the highborn, glacially beautiful Izabela.Wokulski’s story is intertwined with those of the incorrigibly romantic old clerk Rzecki, nostalgic for the revolutions of 1848, and of the bright young scientist Ochocki, who dreams of a future

Keywords: Poland Literature history


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