Prus Boleslaw - Doll - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Bo eslaw 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 Stanis aw Bara czak 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."
Title: Doll
Author(s): Prus Boleslaw
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781590173831
Pages: 704 Pages
Publication Date: 2/8/2011
Category: Classic Fiction