FELDMAN Wilhelm - Polish writing of the last twenty years, 1-2 complete. Lvov 1902.

Author: FELDMAN Wilhelm

Title: Polish Writing of the Last Twenty Years, 1-2 sets [co-edited].

• Place of issue: Lviv
• Year of publication: 1902
• Publisher: H. Altenberg's
• Number of pages: [6], 240; [4], 348
• Illustrations, maps: ---
• Size: 21 cm
• Binding: hard half-leather with gilt on the front and spine, decorative paper on the faces, decayed page edges, decorative boards
• Condition: rubbed/scuffed/soiled binding
• ISBN: ---

Description:

Contains (main sections):

Vol. 1- Positivism triumphant; The decline of ideals; On the heights of the age. Adam Asnyk; Epigones of Romanticism; Reackya feelings. New social ideas. Marya Konopnicka; Literature in everyday life. Theater; On the heights of humanity. Aleksander Swietochowski; Further reackya of feeling. Sienkiewicz's trilogy; Reakcya uczucia. The struggle of social ideas; Social idealism. Eliza Orzeszkowa; Heroic altruism. Boleslaw Prus; Art with everyday life. The novel; Naturalism.

Vol.2- The search for new syntheses. Schyłkowcy; Art in codzinnem życie. Novel and stage; Further search for synthesis. Miriam; On the heights of modernism. Kazimierz Tetmajer; Impressionists. Sewer. - Reymont. - Sirko; The categorical imperative. Stefan Żeromski; Further development of poezia. - Echoes and forpoints; "Młoda Polska" in Krakow "Life"; On the peaks of decadence. Stanisław Przybyszewski; The novel of today. The last works of Sienkiewicz; Artistic harmonies vs. the torn soul in "Young Poland". Jan Kasprowicz; Evolution of the theater; On the heights of neo-romanticism. Stanisław Wyspiański; Overcoming decadence; An attempt at synthesis.

Also includes an index.