Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

In 1894, Wladyslaw Reymont, one of Poland's most important writers, went on a walking pilgrimage from the right bank of Warsaw to Jasna G ra, Poland's most important Marian shrine in Czestochowa. He went as a journalist to cover the pilgrimage for the press rather than out of piety. Quickly, however, he was won over by the simple but deep faith of the pilgrims, mostly simple peasants among whom he felt like an outsider. Available in English for the first time, A Pilgrimage to Jasna G ra is a masterpiece of late-nineteenth century journalism filled with astute sociological observations of the Poles and their faith under Russian domination and richly sensuous descriptions of the beauty of the Polish countryside.

In 1894, Wladyslaw Reymont, one of Poland's most important writers, went on a walking pilgrimage from the right bank of Warsaw to Jasna G ra, Poland's most important Marian shrine in Czestochowa. He went as a journalist to cover the pilgrimage for the press rather than out of piety. Quickly, however, he was won over by the simple but deep faith of the pilgrims, mostly simple peasants among whom he felt like an outsider. Available in English for the first time, A Pilgrimage to Jasna G ra is a masterpiece of late-nineteenth century journalism filled with astute sociological observations of the Poles and their faith under Russian domination and richly sensuous descriptions of the beauty of the Polish countryside.

En av de mest framstående polska romanerna, som belönades med Nobelpriset 1924. Romanen, ibland kallad ett bondeepos, beskriver livet i landsbygdssamhället i den polska byn Lipce.

Sous la houlette de Rex, le troupeau des animaux domestiques se r volte contre les hommes et part la conqu te de lendemains qui chantent. Ce conte, ind modable regard pos sur la condition humaine, a t crit aux lendemains de la premi re guerre mondiale et de la guerre sovi to-polonaise des ann es 1919-1921, dans un pays en plein marasme conomique, alors que la r volution bolchevique tait en train de s'imposer en Russie.

Janka tombe amoureuse du th tre et particuli rement de Shakespeare. Elle se rebelle contre son maniaque de p re, chef d'une petite gare de province, et refuse de se marier. Elle monte Varsovie pour s'engager dans la troupe d'un th tre de plein air et vivre pleinement sa d vorante passion.

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Aus dem Buch: "Sie ging langsam, die Schleppe des Kleides schleifte ber die breiten Marmorstufen, ein resedafarbener pelzverbr mter Mantel h llte ihre hohe, schlanke Gestalt ein, die hellen Haare fielen in einzelnen, wirren Str hnen unter einem gro en schwarzen Hut hervor ... Er sah diese Einzelheiten genau, er h rte jeden ihrer Schritte ... f hlte jede ihrer Bewegungen." Wladyslaw Reymont (1867-1925) war ein polnischer Schriftsteller, Prosaist und Novellist und einer der Hauptvertreter des Realismus. Er geh rte zur Bewegung Mloda Polska (Junges Polen). Zu seinem Nachlass z hlen neben seinen Hauptwerken auch Gedichte. 1924 erhielt er f r seinen vierb ndigen, nach Jahreszeiten unterteilten Roman Die Bauern den Literatur-Nobelpreis. Reymonts Werke sind in ihrer Thematik und literarischen Form sehr vielf ltig. Seine sind oftmals von gesellschaftskritischen Sichtweisen bestimmt.