The Comédienne 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 comédienne of the title, who joins a Warsaw theatre company and struggles toward what was then a very modern notion of personal freedom. A 'Comédienne' 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 might unwittingly expect today.
This edition has been completely re-edited and includes over 500 amendments, corrections and new translations to the orignal text. The introduction by Marianna Rychlowska includes; <ul>
<li>Biographical details of the author</li> <li>Historical context of the book</li> <li>Literary notes</li> <li>Historical review of early theatre in Poland</li> <li>Theatre reportage by Henryk Sienkiewicz</li> </ul>
These unique insights provide the contemporary reader with much of the commonly understood historical context that was assumed of the original audience.

The Comedienne

Literature & Fiction

Reymont, Władysław Stanisław

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Pickthall, Marmaduke

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