#classicalbooks

[quotesbybooks]

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.

Charlotte Brontë

[janerosecaruso]

#classicalbooks 📝 🖋Ad Highbury la vita scorre sempre uguale, c'è poco da fare, tranne occuparsi di organizzare matrimoni, compito che ad Emma piace tantissimo. 📌Sul blog recensione completa. https://www.instagram.com/p/B_PZGiipRHG/?igshid=9laqb570o6ts

[ropuszysko]

Toad vs Pan Tadeusz

Sooo, I've recently read ten out of twelve books of 'Pan Tadeusz' (one of Polish classic literature's best known pieces, written by Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet of romanticism era; title means Mister Tadeusz) and it is generally good, however:

— maybe it is just me, but I cannot really describe main character's (Tadeusz) personality. all i can say about him, is that he is young and thus not mature yet. oh and also he is not afraid to fight, but i guess we can just link it to his youth

— in fact, Zosia, character that was probably only introduced to be Tadeusz's love interest and because romanticism pieces need that pure young girl character, who is so helpless and pure and needs her hero is actually more complex than Tadeusz

then here is some funny stuff:

— action takes place during like five days and this is enough for everyone to have some stupid fight/argument with everyone and also there are some random affairs. it even evolved into a damn foray and then into regular battle with tsar's soldiers, like wtf

— that's a spoiler, but you can say Jacek Soplica is pretending to be a worm for almost whole book (he is pretending to be a bernardine monk, whose name is Robak (worm), but come on, doesn't it sound silly?)

— Tadeusz and Telimena had a moment because of ants

— there is a place called Dobrzyn and every man in there is called either Bartek or Maciek and every women is called either Kachna or Maryna

— Gerwazy killed Russian officer Płut 'pro publico bono'

— Count talks a lot about the time, when he took an important part in some battle at Birbante-rokka, whatever it is, except for some 'fortress in Italy'

— Count is constantly described as 'ostani z Horeszków, chociaż po kądzieli' (the last Horeszko — distaff side)

— there are some minor jokes, Mickiewicz actually had some sense of humor (i can bet that Dobrzyn was totally intended pun)

— basing on 'Pan Tadeusz', one of i guess first Polish PWP was created (i don't remember the author, though. but it is not Fredro, as it was assumed at first). it is called 'XIII book' and it describes *spoiler* Tadeusz and Zosia's wedding night. and call me stupid, but reading it actually made me laugh (so called gimbohumor, i guess (junior high humor))