Dreamer

Władysław Reymont is a Polish writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1924 for the novel "Peasants". He belonged to the circle of neo-romanticists "Young Poland".

Author of short stories, novels, novels, diverse in theme and genre. His work combines the traditions of critical realism with elements of naturalism and symbolism. In the best examples of prose "Meeting", "Before Dawn", "Justly" household themes and scenes from village life dominate. The novels "Comedian", "Brodinnia" are devoted to descriptions of the life of provincial officials, the acting environment, urban themes prevail.

Author of the novel "Vampire", the historical trilogy "1794" about Poland at the end of the 18th century and the national liberation uprising led by Tadeusz Kościuszko. Reymont painfully perceived the revolutionary events of 1905, did not approve of the revolution as a way of changing society.

The novel "The Dreamer" (1910) became a creative response to these events, thematically and in artistic style close to "The Comedian" and "Enzymes". The main character of the work is a cashier at a small railway station, who flees to Paris, dreaming of extraordinary love and feeling longing for the unattainable life he dreamed of.