The Comedienne draws on Nobel Prize winner, Wladyslav Reymont's, own experiences as an actor in a struggling provincial theatre at the fin de siecle, at time of massive social upheaval in Europe. Reymont depicts, in a slow burning tragedy, a young provincial Janina, the comedienne of the title, who joins a Warsaw theatre company and struggles toward what was then a very modern notion of personal freedom. A 'Comedienne' also played drama and tragedy and the word in Polish had some connotation of a deceiver. As such, the title in Reymont's day would have implied a somewhat darker novel that we...

The Comedienne is a book by Wladyslaw S. Reymont.
Wladyslaw S. Reymont is the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
This is the story of a girl who comes to the capital to make a theater career. She meets corrupt, jealous, hysterical, and vulgar people lacking high principles and interests.
This is one of the most famous books by the author.

For the Love of Children is a curiously plotted work by Wladyslaw S.Reymont (translated in 2016 by Sergiej Nowikow).
The main storyline deals with the relations between a poor boy and a girl from a rich family.
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