Sentence examples for Polish prose from inspiring English sources
Bobkowski was recognized in his homeland as a master of modern Polish prose only after Communism ended.
The Polish prose stylist Andrzej Stasiuk takes a Kerouac-style amble from the Baltic to the Adriatic in "On the Road to Babadag" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $23).
A strong proponent of Poland's version of Positivist philosophy, Prus gradually changed from a journalistic career to fiction, and became known as a leading Polish prose writer of the second half of the 19th century.
Preaching in Polish became established toward the end of the 13th century; the earliest-known example of Polish prose, the Kazania świętokrzyskie ("Sermons of the Holy Cross"), dating from the end of the 13th or the beginning of the 14th century, was discovered in 1890.
During the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, great Polish prose writers including Bolesław Prus, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Stefan Żeromski, and the Nobel Prize winners Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905) and Władysław Reymont (1924 were active, some of whom were part of the Young Poland movement.
The Holy Cross Sermons (ca. early 14th century) constitute possibly the oldest extant Polish prose manuscript.
From tightly polished prose to an unfinished baggy monster: David Foster Wallace's posthumous novel The Pale King, left as a collection of chapters, drafts and memos on his suicide in 2008, has been assembled by his editor into a work whose subject matter, wrote Lasdun again, "is as narrowly focused as that of Infinite Jest was richly profuse.
Tyler would translate his books, written in Persian, into English and together they would polish the prose.
It took four months to debate and to draft, including two weeks to polish the prose, neat work done by a committee of style.
She would read her compositions aloud in the process of revision, a habit that helped her to refine and polish her prose.
It is her diary that Lesnewski appropriates; he gives it to another woman, a former lover named Isabel Parris, who is blind to his selfishness, and asks her to polish the prose.
