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Interlude—Kazimierz Tetmajer, The End of the Epic. Volumes I–III + Epilogue [1913–1917]
Title: The End of the Epic. Volumes I–III + Epilogue.
Author: Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1865–1940) [poet and prose writer, one of the most outstanding figures of Young Poland, author of eight volumes of “Poetry” and “Legends of the Tatra Mountains”].
Publisher: Warsaw, S. Orgelbrand.
Year of publication: 1913.
Format: 18 cm.
Volume: Vol. I: 390 pp.; Vol. II: 263 pp.; Vol. III: 211 pp.; Epilogue: 228 pp.
Binding: Period half-leather binding.
“The End of the Epic” is a great historical novel by Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer about the decline of the Napoleonic epic in the years 1812–1815, from the campaign in Russia to the emperor’s downfall. The novel was serialized beginning in 1909. The three-volume book edition was published by the Warsaw-based firm S. Orgelbrand in 1913–1914, followed by the publication of the Epilogue. Two characters dominate the work. The first is Napoleon, portrayed in his downfall as a complex figure, combining the traits of a Nietzschean superman and a decadent. The second is Prince Józef Poniatowski, the embodiment of Polish national hopes, whose self-sacrificing death in the currents of the Elster takes on an almost mystical dimension. Alongside them, the author created a broad panorama of Polish soldiers who pinned their hopes for the nation’s reconstruction on Napoleon’s star. Work on the novel took place against the backdrop of 1913, the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig and the centennial of Prince Józef’s death. The work was published on the eve of the war that once again brought the Polish cause to the forefront of European politics.
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer was born in 1865 in Ludźmierz in the Podhale region. He was educated at St. Anne’s Gymnasium in Kraków and later studied philosophy at Jagiellonian University. He gained fame through his *Poezje* (*Poems*), published in eight volumes between 1891 and 1924, which made him the most popular poet of the Young Poland movement. The second (1894) and third (1898) are considered his most outstanding. He was also a highly regarded prose writer, the author of *Na Skalnym Podhalu* and *Legendy Tatr*, and from 1913 to 1917 he turned to Napoleonic themes. From the 1920s onward, a serious illness sidelined him from literary life. He died in obscurity and poverty in occupied Warsaw in 1940.
Provenance: a piece without ownership stamps or handwritten notes.
This is a complete set of Tetmajer’s Napoleonic novel, published on the centennial of the Battle of Leipzig, in a period binding. A must-have for lovers of Young Poland prose, collectors of Napoleonic-themed literature, and collectors of memorabilia related to Prince Józef Poniatowski.
The sections are intact; the pages show slight discoloration of the paper, but this does not impair the legibility of the text. Period half-leather binding.
Catalog ID: 9550x1-18-B-W
Title: The End of the Epic. Volumes I–III + Epilogue.
Author: Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1865–1940) [poet and prose writer, one of the most outstanding figures of Young Poland, author of eight volumes of “Poetry” and “Legends of the Tatra Mountains”].
Publisher: Warsaw, S. Orgelbrand.
Year of publication: 1913.
Format: 18 cm.
Volume: Vol. I: 390 pp.; Vol. II: 263 pp.; Vol. III: 211 pp.; Epilogue: 228 pp.
Binding: Period half-leather binding.
“The End of the Epic” is a great historical novel by Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer about the decline of the Napoleonic epic in the years 1812–1815, from the campaign in Russia to the emperor’s downfall. The novel was serialized beginning in 1909. The three-volume book edition was published by the Warsaw-based firm S. Orgelbrand in 1913–1914, followed by the publication of the Epilogue. Two characters dominate the work. The first is Napoleon, portrayed in his downfall as a complex figure, combining the traits of a Nietzschean superman and a decadent. The second is Prince Józef Poniatowski, the embodiment of Polish national hopes, whose self-sacrificing death in the currents of the Elster takes on an almost mystical dimension. Alongside them, the author created a broad panorama of Polish soldiers who pinned their hopes for the nation’s reconstruction on Napoleon’s star. Work on the novel took place against the backdrop of 1913, the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig and the centennial of Prince Józef’s death. The work was published on the eve of the war that once again brought the Polish cause to the forefront of European politics.
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer was born in 1865 in Ludźmierz in the Podhale region. He was educated at St. Anne’s Gymnasium in Kraków and later studied philosophy at Jagiellonian University. He gained fame through his *Poezje* (*Poems*), published in eight volumes between 1891 and 1924, which made him the most popular poet of the Young Poland movement. The second (1894) and third (1898) are considered his most outstanding. He was also a highly regarded prose writer, the author of *Na Skalnym Podhalu* and *Legendy Tatr*, and from 1913 to 1917 he turned to Napoleonic themes. From the 1920s onward, a serious illness sidelined him from literary life. He died in obscurity and poverty in occupied Warsaw in 1940.
Provenance: a piece without ownership stamps or handwritten notes.
This is a complete set of Tetmajer’s Napoleonic novel, published on the centennial of the Battle of Leipzig, in a period binding. A must-have for lovers of Young Poland prose, collectors of Napoleonic-themed literature, and collectors of memorabilia related to Prince Józef Poniatowski.
The sections are intact; the pages show slight discoloration of the paper, but this does not impair the legibility of the text. Period half-leather binding.
Catalog ID: 9550x1-18-B-W
