Bits of Table Talk on Pushkin, Mickiewicz Goethe, Turgenev and Sienkiewicz

By Wacław Lednicki

Book Overview

I. The Prose of Pushkin.- II. The Snowstorm.- III. The Nest of Gentlefolk and the "Poetry of Marriage and the Hearth".- IV. Pushkin's "Monument".- V. Adam Mickiewicz: Poland's Romantic Ambassador to the Court of Realism.- VI. Mickiewicz at the Coll?ge de France.- VII. Ex Oriente Lux (Mickiewicz and Pushkin).- VIII. Pushkin's Tazit and Mickiewicz's Konrad Wallenrod.- IX. Goethe and the Russian and Polish Romantics.- X. Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1946).- A Vanished Glory.- The Lighthouse.- The Positivist.- Letters from America.- The Trilogy.- Without Dogma and The Polaniecki Family.- Quo Vadis? and The Teutonic Knights.- Politics and Morality.- Sienkiewicz as I saw him then and now.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9401517533
• ISBN13: 9789401517539
• Release Date: January 1956
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"