The Polish Novel (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
The Polish Novel
While the history of the Polish novel in the strict sense goes back only a little further than two hundred years, the beginnings of Polish long fiction can be traced back as far as the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries gave birth to numerous chronicles, hagiographies, legends, and apocrypha, in which the proportion of fictional and nonfictional elements varied. Even a genre as apparently factographic as the chronicle usually included fictional or fantastic passages, and apocrypha were purely fictional variations on biblical...
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