Nagiel’s novels have not attracted researchers’ attention, except for some references to works devoted to the development of mystery novels in Poland, the image of Warsaw in Polish literature of the 19th century, or the ...

This article addresses two crime novels by Bartłomiej Rychter, Złoty wilk (Gold wolf) and Czarne złoto (Black gold), which are set in the 19th century Galicia, in order to demonstrate how the nature of the setting and ...

The topic of this paper is a forgotten novel by Eliza Orzeszkowa At the Bottom of Conscience (which is only known to literary historians), and more specifically, its connection with an incredibly popular genre of the 19 ...

This article addresses the cases of criminal poisonings of men performed by women in the 19th century. This theme was not popular in crime novels because evidence was established in chemical laboratories rather than by ...

The article considers writing strategies that reconstruct the past and are present in latest Polish crime novels. Among functions catered by crime novels whose storylines are set in 19th century play various functions such ...

Suicide. Carpathian novel by Władysław Sabowski is considered to be the first mod­ern Polish crime fiction. It focuses on crime, but there is no riddle or a way leading to the solution of the mystery. The suspense intertwines ...

This article describes the use of romantic elements in Orbitowski and Urbaniuk’s criminal novel, Tancerz (Dancer). It also shows how the authors of the pop-cultural story enrich the plot, language and poetry thanks by ...

This article is an attempt at describing the conditions which governed the Polish crime novel in the 19th century. The author of this article takes into consideration the context of the West-European crime novel and its ...

The paper deals with biographical, ideological and artistic links between Julian Tuwim, Alfred Döblin and Kurt Tucholsky. On the one hand, the basis of comparison are biographical similarities, the Jewish origin of those ...

Julian Tuwim was an accomplished translator of Russian poetry. Until recently, his contacts with the Russian emigrants in Poland in the interwar period had been scarcely known. The article expands on the topic of the ...