Today in Writing History May 7, 1867: Polish author Wladyslaw Reymont was born. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi (The Peasants), which won him the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature. Also in 1924, he published his novel “Revolt,” about a rebellion of farm animals fighting for equality. However, the revolt quickly degenerates into bloody terror. It was a metaphor for the Bolshevik Revolution. Consequently, the Polish authorities banned it from 1945 to 1989. Reymont’s farm animal rebellion predated Orwell’s by 21 years.

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Literarischer #7Mai

„Es mit der Wahrheit nicht so genau zu nehmen ist das Fundament aller Tribunen!“

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Okay, this did make me laugh - a hearing where the defendant can't hear. #WładysławReymont #ThePeasants #polishliterature