Wacław Berent
Illustration — Wacław Berent Wacław Berent (Warsaw, 28 September 1878 – 19 November or 22 November 1940, Warsaw) was a Polish novelist, essayist and literary translator from the Art Nouveau period, publishing under the pen names S.A.M. and Wł. He studied Natural Science in Kraków and Zurich, and obtained a PhD in Munich before returning to Warsaw and embarking on a literary career around the turn of the century. Having devoted himself to writing he was influenced by Nietzsche, whom he translated.
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Wacław Berent
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- Died
- 1940 · Warsaw.
- Nationality
- Poland
- Occupation
- linguist · translator · writer · biologist
- Education
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Honours
- Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta · Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Languages
- Polish
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Wacław Berent (28 septembre 1873 – 20 novembre 1940) fut écrivain, traducteur et biologiste.
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La naissance de Wacław Berent est enregistrée le 28 septembre 1873 à Varsovie, et le décès le 20 novembre 1940 à Varsovie.
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• Próchno (Rotten Wood, 1903) • Ozimina (Winter Crop, 1911) • Żywe kamienie (Living Stones, 1918) • Nurt (Trend, 1934) • Diogenes w kontuszu (Diogenes in a Kontusz, 1937) • Zmierzch wodzów (The Dusk of the Commanders, 1939)
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He also worked under the name Władysław Rawicz. The authorities additionally record the heading Waclaw Berent. His recorded language was Polish.
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Life and career
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1873
Wacław Berent born at Warsaw.
1940
Wacław Berent died at Warsaw.
Literary output
Berent became a member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature (Polska Akademia Literatury) in 1933.
Berent translated into Polish Thus Spoke Zarathustra by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Along with Władysław Reymont, he was a leading representative of the realist trend in the Young Poland movement (Młoda Polska). His main work, a social novel Żywe kamienie (Stones Alive), depicted the circumstances which threatened traditional moral values in the industrial era. He was a critic of late nineteenth-century Positivist slogans, modernist Polish philosophy and European bohemianism, which postulated "art for art's sake". In his novel Ozimina (Winter Crop) he depicted the emergence of the Polish independence movement prior to the Revolution of 1905. He was an aesthetic opponent of Romanticism.
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- 1.Polish Literature on the University of Vienna Pages: Wacław Berent. Universität Wien. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
- 2.Norwich, John Julius. Oxford illustrated encyclopedia. Oxford University Press. 44. 1985–1993. 0-19-869129-7.
- 3.Dr Marek Adamiec, Wacław Berent. Virtual Library of Polish Literature. University of Gdansk, 2003.
- 4.Kalendarium literatury międzywojennej.
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