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 co.
New York Review Of Books The doll, paperback/boleslaw prus
