First published in Polish as Bunt>, this animal fable of the Polish Nobel Prize winner (1924) was inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, and the Polish-Soviet War, which had just ended a year before the novel was serialised in 1922. Comparisons to George Orwell’s later novel Animal Farm will naturally arise in the reader’s mind – and often, to the advantage of Reymont.
First published in Polish as Bunt>, this animal fable of the Polish Nobel Prize winner (1924) was inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, and the Polish-Soviet War, which had just ended a year before the novel was serialised in 1922. Comparisons to George Orwell’s later novel Animal Farm will naturally arise in the reader’s mind – and often, to the advantage of Reymont.