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The article begins with stating a fact that in Bolesław Prus’s "Kroniki" there are many fragments (especially those, in which black women occur), which sound so obscene that, according to contemporary standards, they could be considered pornographic. This lead to a conclusion that the conviction about an absolute prudery of the contemporary official circles and a current image of Bolesław Prus has to be modified. The next part of the article is devoted to an attempt to find the reasons why exactly this topic of African women provoked the author of "Kroniki" to come up with erotic fantasies (one of them was a belief in the moral inferiority of African inhabitants widespread in the 19th century), and also to more detailed analysis of the most characteristic fragments of "Kroniki" containing all these fantasies (embedding the image of women, created by its author, in the context of other colonial narratives).
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Bolesław Prus had been writing "Kroniki" to many Warsaw newspapers for 37 years. In the paper fragments of texts published in “Kurier Warszawski” in 1879 (it is the time of a novel "The Doll"setting) were selected and interpreted. The text shows the writer’s — a journalist’s and a keen observer’s — thoughts on the social situation of the inhabitants of Warsaw: their interests, behaviours, daily problems, and everyday matters. The interventionist nature of Prus’s journalism demonstrates the increasing role of the press in presenting sensitive issues, which has long remained a taboo in Polish literature. The comments placed in "Kroniki" on the work of journalists and writers lead to the conclusion that Prus–the editor lives an everyday life of Warsaw, marvels at her or criticises her sharply; as the author of a realist novel, he uses current events to illustrate processes that express his concern.
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In reference to Professor Barbara Bobrowska review, the text presents reasons why Bolesław Prus’s "W Warszawie. Wybór z 'Kronik'" adopted such form, and not another, and how this form results from general assumptions regarding activities to promote knowledge about "The Doll’s" creator and his work. The author’s position on what disseminating actions should be carried out to transmit knowledge on literature and culture from the second half of the nineteenth century to wider audience than before was also presented. The last section provides some comments on the defects of the "Kroniki" edition made by a team led by Professor Zygmunt Szweykowski.
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