Abstract
Shortly before the rebellion was defeated, in early 1864, Boleslaw Prus was captured and imprisoned in Lublin Castle. After being released, he was educated in Lublin and Siedlce, before beginning his studies at the Main School in Warsaw. Prus’s The Doll is among the most outstanding realist novels of the nineteenth century, depicting a wide panorama of Warsaw in the 1870s. The specific literary references that underpin this Romantic context are even more challenging to the Japanese reader than the love story itself. The narrator and protagonists often refer to the works of the leading poet of Polish Romanticism, Adam Mickiewicz, suggesting the dialogue with the movement’s legacy that was typical of Positivist works. The history of Wokulski’s love for Izabela is related in a conventional style, accompanied by a rhetoric and psychology familiar to Polish readers from Mickiewicz’s multi-part poetic drama Forefathers’ Eve.
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