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Author: Reymont Wladyslaw
Publisher: Šareni dućan
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Condition: Nova knjiga
Code: 56672

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Reymont Wladyslaw

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Wladyslaw Reymont: Rebellion

Although Władysław Stanisław Reymont has the right of precedence for almost twenty years, comparisons of his Rebellion (1924) with the thematically similar George Orwell's Animal Farm, as well as speculations about whether Orwell knew about Reymont's novel, have been raising dust around this now somewhat forgotten work and its author for years. A self-taught and literary outsider, Reymont lived on the literary margins for years, so that in 1924, in the fierce competition of authors such as Thomas Mann, Maxim Gorky and Thomas Hardy, he won the most flattering recognition - the Nobel Prize!
Written in the form of a fable, Rebellion describes the uprising of animals against man and their departure, led by the "great leader" the dog Rex, on a "journey to where the cranes fly, to blessed lands where there are no people and where freedom and happiness reign". It is interesting that this dystopia was banned in Poland for a long time - the official edition was only published in 2004! - because vigilant censors (quite rightly) evaluated it as a criticism of the October Revolution and all forms of totalitarianism, declared it unsuitable and threw it out of all bookstores, libraries and books on Polish literature as quickly as possible! into the censor's mind and the reasons for banning this intriguing work! Because you never know...

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