![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He was the leading representative of realism in 19th-century Polish literature and remains a distinctive voice in world literature. As a sideline, to augment Bolesław Prus (pronounced: Hrubieszów, Aug– May 19, 1912, Warsaw), whose actual name was Aleksander Głowacki, was a Polish journalist and novelist who is known especially for his novels The Doll and Pharaoh. In 1872 at age 25, in Warsaw, Prus settled into a distinguished 40-year journalistic career. An indelible mark was left on Prus by his experiences as a 15-year-old soldier in the Polish 1863 Uprising against Imperial Russia, in which he suffered severe injuries and imprisonment. Głowacki took the pen name "Prus" from the name of his family coat-of-arms. ![]() Bolesław Prus (pronounced: Hrubieszów, Aug– May 19, 1912, Warsaw), whose actual name was Aleksander Głowacki, was a Polish journalist and novelist who is known especially for his novels The Doll and Pharaoh. ![]()
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