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The Doll

Description: Boeslaw 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 Stanisaw Baraczak 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.""

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Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781590173831 Author(s): Boleslaw Prus Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2011 Edition: Main Publisher: New York Review of Books Pages: 683 Series: New York Review Books Classics

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