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The article concerns the intertekstual presence of Adam Mickiewicz’s poetry in the novel Lalka by Bolesław Prus. The main thesis is equal to the conviction that the novelist shows how incoherent, insincere and narrow is the poetical vision of love affair. Romantic love lyric is some kind of celebration of the self which is the origin and director of his own desire. The novel with the help of Wokulski’s trials and tribulations underlines that desire is attracted mainly by inaccessible objects and envy among rivals.