Mit Feuer und Schwert

Von Henryk Sienkiewicz

Mit Feuer und Schwert ist ein historischer Roman des polnischen Schriftstellers Henryk Sienkiewicz und der erste Teil einer Trilogie, die durch die Romane Sintflut (1886) und Herr Wołodyjowski (1888) fortgesetzt wird.
Die Handlung des Historienepos spielt in den Jahren 1648 bis 1651 und thematisiert die Rebellion der Kosaken unter Hetman Bohdan Chmielnicki in der Ukraine, welche damals unter polnischer Herrschaft stand. Der Roman wurde im Jahr 1884 in Warschau veröffentlicht. Die Erzählung entstand zu Zeiten der Teilungen Polens und sollte der polnischen Leserschaft zur "Stärkung der Herzen" dienen.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: andersseitig.de
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22. Apr. 2014
• ISBN: 9783955011659

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.