Malvina, or the Heart's Intuition

First published in Warsaw in 1816, Malvina, or the Heart's Intuition has been largely--and unjustly--ignored by the...
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Author: Maria Wirtemberska
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Malvina, or the Heart's Intuition by Wirtemberska, Maria

Malvina, or the Heart's Intuition

¥4,378

Malvina, or the Heart's Intuition

¥4,378
Author: Maria Wirtemberska
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

First published in Warsaw in 1816, Malvina, or the Heart's Intuition has been largely--and unjustly--ignored by the Polish literary canon. Ingeniously structured and vividly related by a Tristram Shandy-esque narrator, Maria Wirtemberska's psychologically complex work is often considered Poland's first modern novel. This splendid translation by Ursula Phillips should restore Wirtemberska to her rightful place in the literary pantheon while providing fertile new ground for the study of the international development of the novel.

The romantic story of the young widow Malvina and her mysterious lover Ludomir, Malvina combines several literary styles and influences--from the epistolary to the Gothic. Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz argues that Malvina is quintessentially a sentimental novel--a model of the genre whose chief aspiration is to promote a change in sensibility and inspire new forces of feeling and imagination. For this reason Wirtemberska may be compared to her English contemporary, Jane Austen. A work of genuine artistic daring and sophistication, Malvina, or the Heart's Intuition has been overlooked by critics for too long, and readers have been denied the pleasure of reading one of literature's major landmarks--until now.



Author: Maria Wirtemberska
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 05/15/2012
Pages: 244
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780875804507
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author

Maria Wirtemberska (1768-1854) was a Polish noblewoman and philanthropist in addition to being a writer.

Ursula Phillips is a writer on Polish literature, mainly in the field of women's writing, gender and feminism, and also a translator of literary and academic works, including The Palace by contemporary novelist Wieslaw Mysliwski, historian Antoni Maczak's Travel in Early Modern Europe, Grazyna Borkowska's Alienated Women and the recent research project Humanism in Polish Culture. She is Honorary Research Associate of the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

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