The novel depicts the dramatic life of Gustaw—a young idealist, loner, and poet who struggles painfully with reality. The work focuses on the protagonist’s inner conflicts and on the age-old conflict between a sensitive individual (the artist) and a materialistic society.
Gubrynowicz and Schmidt (Lviv) and Michał Glücksberg (Warsaw). The book was published as the eighth volume in the series “Collected Novels of J. I. Kraszewski.”
127 pages.
