Błądzenie Michałka. Nad mapą Warszawy Prusa
Michałko’s Wanderings: On the Map of Prus’s Warsaw

Summary/Abstract: The fictional events in Prus’s novella “Michałko” are set in the real geographical space of Warsaw at a precise historical moment – August and September 1877, i.e. a time of intense construction across the city. Prus experiments with the technique he would later use in The Doll (Lalka), in particular the use of an unreliable narrator. Michałko’s wandering and the blurring of the contours of the world represented amount to a method that could be described as ‘narration through the glass of a bottle’.

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