Popioły

Popioły (Ashes) #1

by Stefan Żeromski

Fresk historyczny. Rafał Olbromski na splątanych ścieżkach życia. Dzieje młodego, niedoświadczonego szlachcica na tle wojen napoleońskich. Zakocha się, zostanie masonem, wejdzie w wielki świat... Jego przyjaciele i mentorzy będą prowadzić ważne rozmowy, poznawać świat, zmieniać poglądy... Wielka powieść o Historii i ludziach w nią wplątanych.

Genres: Polish Literature

Unknown Binding

About the author

Stefan Żeromski ( [ˈstɛfan ʐɛˈrɔmski] Strawczyn near Kielce, October 14, 1864 – November 20, 1925, Warsaw) was a Polish novelist and dramatist. He was called the "conscience of Polish literature". He also wrote under the pen names: Maurycy Zych, Józef Katerla and Stefan Iksmoreż.

In 1892–96 Żeromski worked as a librarian—during the last two years, as the librarian—at the Polish National Museum in Rapperswil, Switzerland.

In recognition of his literary achievements, he was granted the privilege of using an apartment at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. In 1924 he was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in literature.[2]

His novel were filmed by Walerian Borowczyk - Dzieje grzechu (A Story of Sin), Andrzej Wajda - Popioły (The Ashes), Filip Bajon - Przedwiośnie (The Spring to Come).

* The Spring to Come (Przedwiośnie)
* The Labors of Sisyphus (Syzyfowe prace), about 19th- and 20th-century Tsarist efforts to Russify the Russian-occupied part of Poland.
* Ashes (Popioły, 1902 – 03)
* The Faithful River (Wierna rzeka, 1912)
* Ravens and Crows Will Peck Us to Pieces (Rozdziobią nas kruki, wrony)
* Homeless People (Ludzie bezdomni, 1899)
* A Story of Sin (Dzieje grzechu)
* Elegy for a Hetman (Duma o hetmanie)
* Sułkowski
* The Rose (Róża)
* The Charm of Life (Uroda życia)
* Struggles with Satan (Walka z szatanem)
* Wind from the Sea (Wiatr od morza)
* The Little Quail Ran Away From Me (Uciekła mi przepióreczka)

His works have been translated into several languages. For example, they have been translated into Croatian by a member of the Croatian Academy, Stjepan Musulin.

Reviews

[karalina813 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rafał grający w karty na zajęciach mood.

Reread po miesiącu - wreszcie coś zrozumialam.

[Michał Hołda · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is good to read, scenes there are real, easy to imagine.

Like when young boys fight with fists, with blood from they're faces and foam from they mouths is spitting around, just because one of them brought doom to common flow. Taking him on the river in winter time, making him sick.

There is great part of the book, again scene, easy to imagine and important for history. About Caesar vs Pompey in Cesar Civil War when he kills Pompey and is executed later on by senate, probably because of all this.

And it goes like this:

"But am I not making you feel sorry for speaking like this?
- Not. I was thinking about what Inn now.
- Ah yes?
- You hear about Joubert, les?
- General Joubert?
- This is. Or will the same thing be repeated over there, in the red dunes, at the edge of the desert? Will we also meet the wild rage of the Tyrolean boys there? If you could see it! These people, strong, haughty, agile, in dark clothes, girded with wide belts studded with gleaming tin! This is how Caesar's iron legions appeared in the gorges of Gaster, at the foot of the glacial mountain of Glenisza, in the Helvetic wilderness of the tribes of Orgetorix. This is how bravely descended to the Latin hosts of Adul, Mons. Germans of the untamed mountains, clothed in the skins of cows and heifers, with bull's horns on their heads, with beech clubs in hand, as to us this mountain ice, appearing from the caverns hidden in the height between the sky and the earth. It was a new clash between the Latin family and the Germanic tribe. They walked against our quadrilaterals, bristling with bayonets, with great strides, , with great strides, in the best of silence. They fought to death without groaning or screaming encouragement. Not one of them asked to be spared. Rolling on the ground, they fought on the bodies of their dying comrades. They kidnapped our soldiers by the bars, tore their rifles from their hands and, grabbing them by their bayonets, struck them with invisible force, like a club. Thousands of them covered the battlefield with their bodies. Our soldiers looked at these corpses with reverence. Our old soldiers said that their bodies, torn with bayonets, poured out, that they were supernatural, as if a double amount of blood.
Prince Ginatult listened silently, head lowered. When Sulkowski finished, he said with a sigh:
- Listening to this, it seems to me that I am reading the stories of the wild battles of Caesar with Pompey.
- Really. Joubert, who had crossed the terrible mii through the valleys of Sterling, driving Laudon ahead of him among the riotous people of the mountains, Joubert, who, surrounded on all sides, managed to invade the country of the enemies and open the way to the capital, worth comparing with Pompey.
- All this is not worth a single poem by Dante.
- Enjoy this certainty as much as you want!
Cha-Cha! Not worth a single poem by Dante ... "

In ashes at the end of the book, Stefan Żeromski writes about scene of surrender, and end of WWI, and its message is that it was treason on all, after all. The secret paragraph was done at July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918, ending the war.

It's aligning facts that Caesar, Napoleon and WWI itself, its beginning and end before things has been resolved. Are treason to people, and not only Polish but to everyone involved.

I like this first volume of three to read. After all its well known in Poland to be good lecture book, classical and for ages value at its best. Back in the past such books has been essential to teaching young Polish youth, in conspiracy, in privet houses of teachers.

[Nika · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cóż. Rafałek przypomina mi trochę Cezarego Barykę, tylko jeszcze bardziej dumnego. Książę i Piotr Olbromski są bardzo sus.
Akcja rozwija się bardzo powoli, ale tu już co kto lubi.

[Edytorka.Dobre.Rady · Rating 2 out of 5]

4% to i tak za dużo, jak na tak irytującego Rafała 😆.