A ‘judgement of the eye’? The way(s) the world is perceived in Bolesław Prus’s prose works

The Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) () altering the proportions of things seen, the concave mirror implicates that there is an infinite potential of worlds that are created through optical experiences or directly through thought.J.S. Bystro 1The nineteenth century was an age of industrial development, triumphant technological concepts, inventions and discoveries that brought about a change in the way the world was perceived.For the Polish prose writer Bolesaw Prus, it was the reality he lived in and pursued his creative work in, attentively observed with his chronicler's eye; as a novelist, he processed it artistically in(to) the plots of his fiction works.For Prus's life and work, of particular importance proved three technological 'novelties', which -along with the phonograph, telephone, and cinematography -'somehow determined the life of the author of Lalka [The Doll] -namely, the velocipede, typewriter, and photographic camera: metaphysics, praxis, and aesthetics', as Jakub A. Malik puts it. 2One more appliance is worth of recalling at this point, * First printed as "'Sd oka'?O sposobach postrzegania wiata w twrczoci Bolesawa Prusa", in

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