Brzozowski Stanislaw, Flames. From the papers after Michał Kaniowski vol. I-II in 1 vol.

Brzozowski Stanisław, Flames ,From the papers after Michał Kaniowski vol. I-II in 1 vol. published by Literackie, Krakow 1956, p. 558, dimensions 15 x 21 cm. Cover design by Jerzy Napieracz. Booklet cover, publisher. Piece uncut.

Flames. From the papers of Michal Kaniowski, a 1908 novel by Stanislaw Brzozowski in two volumes, considered the first Polish intellectual novel. It presents an ideological panorama of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and is a critique of capitalism, traditionalism, landed conservatism and clericalism. The main theme of the novel is the problem of the relationship between the creative potential of the individual and social conditions, and the search for ways to repair the world. For several generations of leftist youth in the 20th century, it was a cult novel, being an emotional story of Polish and Russian revolutionaries, as well as a response to Dostoevsky's Thebes. Czeslaw Milosz, Leszek Kolakowski, Andrzej Mencwel and Adam Michnik, among others, admitted to being fascinated by Flames.