Of his novels, perennial favorites with readers are The Doll and Pharaoh. Achieving success with these, he went on to employ a broader canvas between 18, he completed four major novels on "great questions of our age." As a sideline, to augment his income and to appeal to readers through their aesthetic sensibilities, he began writing short stories.
In 1872 at age 25, in Warsaw, Prus settled into a distinguished 40-year journalistic career. Głowacki took the pen name "Prus" from the name of his family coat-of-arms.Īn indelible mark was left on Prus by his experiences as a 15-year-old soldier in the Polish 1863 Uprising against Imperial Russia, in which he suffered severe injuries and imprisonment.
He was the leading representative of realism in 19th-century Polish literature and remains a distinctive voice in world literature.
Bolesław Prus (pronounced: Hrubieszów, Aug– May 19, 1912, Warsaw), whose actual name was Aleksander Głowacki, was a Polish journalist and novelist who is known especially for his novels The Doll and Pharaoh.
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