Ohne Dogma

Von Henryk Sienkiewicz

An diesem Werke lernen wir den gefeierten Dichter Polens von der allgemein menschlichen Seite kennen. Die in der Weichert'schen »Kollektion klassischer Romane« erschienenen zwei andern Werke aus seiner Feder zeigten ihn auf historischem Boden: »Quo vadis?« führte uns in das kaiserliche Rom des Altertums zur Zeit des keimenden Christentums, »Die Kreuzritter« in die Zeit der Kämpfe zwischen dem Deutschritter-Orden und dem Königreiche Polen als der äußersten Vormacht des Slaventums. In den diesen beiden Werken vorausgesandten Einleitungen findet der Käufer der vorliegenden Ausgabe der Sienkiewicz-Romane, was ihm zur Orientierung über den Dichter und seinen Lebenslauf, wie über das Milieu, in welchem die Handlungen spielen, und über die Zeit derselben, zu wissen von Nöten ist, um einen richtigen Genuss von der Lektüre dieser hervorragendsten Werke der gegenwärtigen schöngeistigen Literatur zu haben.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: andersseitig.de
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22. Apr. 2014
• ISBN: 9783955011666

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz also known by the pseudonym Litwos, was a Polish writer, novelist, journalist and Nobel Prize laureate. He is best remembered for his historical novels, especially for his internationally known best-seller Quo Vadis (1896). Born into an impoverished Polish noble family in Russian-ruled Congress Poland, in the late 1860s he began publishing journalistic and literary pieces. In the late 1870s he traveled to the United States, sending back travel essays that won him popularity with Polish readers. In the 1880s he began serializing novels that further increased his popularity. He soon became one of the most popular Polish writers of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and numerous translations gained him international renown, culminating in his receipt of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "outstanding merits as an epic writer." Many of his novels remain in print. In Poland he is best known for his "Trilogy" of historical novels, With Fire and Sword, The Deluge, and Sir Michael, set in the 17th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; internationally he is best known for Quo Vadis, set in Nero's Rome. The Trilogy and Quo Vadis have been filmed, the latter several times, with Hollywood's 1951 version receiving the most international recognition.