Authors: Wislawa Szymborska
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* The reference is to the Polish novelist BolesÅaw Prus (1847â1912), whose most famous work,
The Doll
(1890), later became a popular TV miniseries. (
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* One of Poland's greatest Romantic poets, SÅowacki lived from 1809 to 1849. (
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