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Doll
Taschenbuch von Boleslaw Prus
Sprache: Englisch

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Boleslaw Prus is 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 brilliant 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 full of flying machines and other marvels, making for a book of great scope and richness that is, as Stanislaw Baranczak writes in his introduction, at once "an old-fashioned yet still fascinating love story . . . , a still topical diagnosis of society's ills, and a forceful yet subtle portrayal of a tragically doomed man."
Boleslaw Prus is 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 brilliant 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 full of flying machines and other marvels, making for a book of great scope and richness that is, as Stanislaw Baranczak writes in his introduction, at once "an old-fashioned yet still fascinating love story . . . , a still topical diagnosis of society's ills, and a forceful yet subtle portrayal of a tragically doomed man."
Über den Autor
Boleslaw Prus, Translated from the Polish by David Welsh, Introduction by Stanislaw Baranczak
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781590173831
ISBN-10: 159017383X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Prus, Boleslaw
Übersetzung: David Welsh
Hersteller: The New York Review of Books, Inc
Maße: 202 x 128 x 40 mm
Von/Mit: Boleslaw Prus
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.02.2011
Gewicht: 0,69 kg
Artikel-ID: 107424242
Über den Autor
Boleslaw Prus, Translated from the Polish by David Welsh, Introduction by Stanislaw Baranczak
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781590173831
ISBN-10: 159017383X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Prus, Boleslaw
Übersetzung: David Welsh
Hersteller: The New York Review of Books, Inc
Maße: 202 x 128 x 40 mm
Von/Mit: Boleslaw Prus
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.02.2011
Gewicht: 0,69 kg
Artikel-ID: 107424242
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