The first concerns the thematic definition of Lalka: Jerzy Pietrkiewicz, Zbigniew Przybyla, and David Welsh, deliberate on various possibilities, such as the conflict and succession of generations, the tale of time and mores, the didactic story of a parvenu’s climbing up and falling down the social ladder however, all three concur that Prus’s Lalka should be likened to William Thackeray’s Vanity Fair since it, too, may be subtitled “a novel without a hero” (Pietrkiewicz, 241 Przybyla, 111-112 Welsh).Īnother aspect of the novel that is commented upon with a certain unity of opinion is the techniques used by the author in the rendering of his main character, Stanislaw Wokulski, or, rather, the source of their origination. For this reason two occurrences of agreement by several critics on a particular aspect of the novel seem to deserve special attention. Inna Caron The Road to Self: Reading Prus’s Lalka Through the Prism of the Russian Realist Novelįor over a century, Boleslaw Prus’s novel Lalka (1890), with its ambiguous ending and rumored plans for a sequel (Wlodek Цыбалко, 488-489) has been subject to a variety of interpretations. Academic Electronic Journal in Slavic Studies.
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