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Stanislaw Przybyszewski Children of Misery [1st edition, 1913].

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Stanislaw Przybyszewski
Children of misery

Warsaw 1913 first edition
Printed by Gebethner & Wolff
(6)299s.
o. half cloth
p. db small stain in bottom corner, page reinforcements, two pages corner reinforced with tape
For. ca: 18x11.5 cm

"All the novels presented essentially the same type of heroes: outstanding individualists destroyed by the social world and their own inner demons, doomed to extinction. The author presented them in extreme, often pathological mental states (alcoholism, jealousy, destructive love...). The plots of the novels were threadbare, providing a pretext for analyzing the internal states of the characters. This new type of novel characters required appropriate narrative techniques, different from those of the realistic novel. Przybyszewski made innovative use of seemingly dependent speech and internal monologue.

Each of his books provoked a heated public reaction - mainly due to the violation of moral taboos and (intended) moral provocation. His novels and essays were translated into many languages (including English, Italian, Russian, Czech, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Yiddish) and had a major impact on the literature of the period - especially Scandinavian and Central European literature."