The Doll
The Doll
Author: Bolesław Prus
Desc: Warsaw under Russian rule in the late 1870s is the setting for Prus’s grand panorama of social conflict political tension and personal suffering. The middle-aged hero Wokulski successful in business is being destroyed by his obsessive love for a frigid society doll Izabela. Embattled aristocrats the new men of finance Dickensian tradesmen and the urban poor all come vividly to life on the vast superbly detailed canvas against which Wokulski’s personal tragedy is played out. Unlike his Western European counterparts Prus had to work under official censorship. In this edition most of the smaller cuts made by the Tsarist censor have been restored and one longer fragment is included as an appendix.