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Boleslaw Prus (1847-1912) was the pseudonym of Aleksander Glowacki, Poland's prominent realist writer and essayist. Three of his other major novels-The Outpost, The Emancipated, and Pharaoh-have also been translated into English. Stanislaw Baranczak is a poet, literary critic, scholar, editor, and lecturer. His book Chirurgiczna Precyzja (Surgical Precision) won the 1999 Nike Award David Welsh's translations include A Dreambook for Our Time by Tadeusz Konwicki, Cloak of Illusion by Stanislaw Dygat, and Black Torrent by Leopold Buczkowski.
@lt;p@gt; This utterly oddball, fiercely enjoyable novel dissects the self-destructive romanticism of a brilliant, self-made tycoon who falls in love with a glamorous airhead. The book, with Proustian patience and subtlety, analyzes the delusions of infatuation seen through the lens of class. @lt;br@gt; --Phillip Lopate, @lt;i@gt;Salon@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; @lt;i@gt;The Doll @lt;/i@gt;demonstrates 19th-century realism at its best. @lt;br@gt; --Czesław Miłosz @lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; . . . a great panoramic novel of 19th-century Poland. @lt;br@gt; --Timothy Garton Ash, @lt;i@gt;The Independent@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;/p@gt;
