A collection of short stories by a popular and influential Russian author, the founder of the literary method of socialist realism and, possibly, the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th ce...więcej »
Like Byron’s passionate sayings „sounding on the tones of a wild and completely unsophisticated melody”, this is Gorky’s crazy, unbridled, powerful voice when he sings about...więcej »
The novel „Mother”, one of Gorky’s most popular works, was based on the mass demonstration of 1902 in the city of Sormovo. Hence, an exciting plot based on real events, with a sha...więcej »
The poem in prose „Twenty-Six and One” is based on the writer’s impressions related to life in Kazan and work in Semenov’s bakery. Gorky considers the image of a tramp, reve...więcej »
The stories, united under the name „Through Russia”, were originally printed by M. Gorky in various periodicals and collections. In the series of short stories „In Russia”. ...więcej »
The play is about a petty official Khlestakov, who does not stand out for anything special. He is traveling from St. Petersburg on business with his servant, they stop in one county town, where the...więcej »
Dead Souls is a unique novel that has become a unique standard of ironic prose for Russian literature. The story of the ingenious businessman Chichikov, buying up the „dead souls” of se...więcej »
The book describes the events that took place in the first half of the 17th century, when the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks defended their rights. Taras Bulba is a grown man, a Cossack colonel meets his so...więcej »
It can be seen from the book that at that time rhetoric was used to a greater extent in the courts, and Aristotle writes a lot about judicial speeches, how to convince judges and jurors, and someti...więcej »
The story of a boy Egor, who goes from his home to a gymnasium located in another city. This trip is the last event before the start of a new life away from mother and familiar places. Nothing unex...więcej »
The theme of the „little man”, which appeared in many of Chekhov’s short stories, was also touched on in the novel „My Life”. The main character, Misail Poloznev, a no...więcej »
A short story about an unhappy involuntary marriage. Family quarrels, like bad weather in the Russian wilderness: there is nothing worse than becoming an involuntary captive of a blizzard of someon...więcej »
Monografia, którą oddajemy w ręce czytelnika, stanowi zbiór referatów będących wynikiem badań nad wybranymi zagadnieniami z dziedziny literaturoznawstwa, językoznawstwa, transl...więcej »
Geniusz i melancholia. Fryderyk Chopin i pedagogika romantyzmu w aspekcie nauk performatywnychKsiążka jest interdyscyplinarnym studium funkcjonowania wybitnej jednostki w społeczeństwie...więcej »
Tom zawiera studia dotyczące towianizmu i procesu recepcji tego zjawiska w kulturze polskiej (aż po współczesność), a także poza jej obrębem, przede wszystkim we Włoszech. Został podzielony ...więcej »
Przedkładana monografia zawiera 28 tekstów, poruszających problematykę z czterech obszarów tematycznych dyskursu: w leksykologii, w przekładzie, w literaturze oraz w kulturze. W kręga...więcej »
Niniejsza monografia obejmuje referaty z zakresu literaturoznawstwa, kulturoznawstwa i lingwistyki, podejmując twórczą próbę scalenia wybranych aspektów dziedzictwa Wschodu i Z...więcej »
Przemiany społeczno-kulturowe, gospodarcze i demograficzne stawiają przed współczesną rodziną wyzwania nieznane wcześniejszym pokoleniom. Cywilizacja zachodnia przeżywa dziś kryzys systemu w...więcej »
The first monograph of the influential Polish group Rytm to be published in English, this book is a nuanced reconstruction of this forgotten interwar association of artists, and an original contrib...więcej »