Henryk Sienkiewicz (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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There can be no doubt that it was Henryk Sienkiewicz’s success as an author of historical novels that led the Swedish Academy to select him as the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905. Yet he was at the same time a prolific writer of short stories, many of which continue to be ranked among the finest ever written in the Polish language. One of his masterworks in this genre is entitled “Janko myzikant” (1879; “Yanko the Musician,” 1893). In this story, a young peasant boy named Yanko is so obsessed with the beauty of music that he is...
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