Aleksander Fredro

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Aleksander Fredro (Critical Survey of Drama)

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Aleksander Fredro wrote autobiographical and patriotic poetry intermittently throughout his adult life. These poems, however, are not of major importance. Also of modest literary merit is Fredro’s only novel, Nieszczęścia najszczęśliwego męża (1841; the misfortunes of the happiest husband). On the other hand, his posthumously published book of reminiscences, Trzy po trzy (1880; topsy-turvy talk), has been acclaimed as one of the masterworks of Polish prose. This work, apparently written in the late 1840’s, is composed in a style...

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