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By Narcyza Zmichowska,Ursula Phillips

ISBN-10: 0875806848

ISBN-13: 9780875806846

Narcyza Zmichowska (1819-76) used to be the main comprehensive lady author to return out of Poland within the mid-nineteenth century. by way of impact and recognition, she used to be the George Eliot of East ecu letters, yet her fiction used to be written much less within the realist type than within the Romantic one.  Her novel The Heathen, rendered right here in a crystalline English translation by way of Ursula Phillips, is the story of a doomed love affair among Benjamin, a tender guy from a bad yet patriotic rural relations, and Aspasia, a femme fatale who's older, attractive, worldlier, and extra sexually liberated.

As the tale unfolds, Benjamin falls in love with Aspasia, accompanies her to Warsaw, and lower than her impression achieves impressive highbrow heights—until she tires of him and takes one other lover. Jealous, Benjamin murders Aspasia’s new paramour and flees to his mom within the countryside—where he realizes the total quantity of what he has misplaced and betrayed. accordingly the basic pressure during this paintings, represented by means of the 2 ladies who compete for Benjamin’s affection: the mummy, who represents self-abnegation and redemption from sin, and Aspasia, who represents self-indulgence and sin itself. finally, The Heathen embodies a profound meditation at the limits of those typecasts: the radical not just explores the limitations they put on girls in the course of the 19th century, yet on human happiness, and Poland’s then tenuous impulse towards modernity.

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