Doll, The

Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-1-85866-065-3
Verlag: CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

The city of Warsaw, under Russian rule in the late 1870s, is the setting for this story. The middle-aged hero, Wokulski, bold and successful in business, is being destroyed by his obsessive love for the frigid, aristocratic society ‘doll’ Izabela. The embattled aristocracy, the new men of finance, Dickensian tradesmen and the urban poor all come vividly to life on the vast, superbly detailed canvas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Prus, Boleslaw

Weitere Mitwirkende

Welsh, David J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction by Stanislaw Baranczak

The Doll

Appendix: A censored passage

Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Prus, Boleslaw
Boleslaw Prus was the pseudonum of Aleksander Glowacki (1847-1912), Poland’s prominent realist writer and essayist. His youthful experience of participating in the 1863 January Uprising against Tsarist rule is a constant presence in his work. Three of his other major novels – The Outpost, The Emancipated and Pharaoh – have also been translated into English.