Boles aw Prus

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Boles aw Prus Hrubieszów, 20 August 1847 19 May 1912, Warsaw), whose actual name was Aleksander G owacki, is the foremost figure in Polish literature of the late 19th century, and a distinctive voice in world literature. He adopted the pen name "Prus" from his family coat-of-arms. 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. These early experiences may have precipitated the panic disorder and agoraphobia that were to dog him through life. (This was the same uprising whose preparations impinged tragically on the family of fellow future novelist Joseph Conrad.) In 1872 at age 25, in Warsaw, Prus settled into a 40-year journalistic career that highlighted education, science, technology, and economic and cultural development enterprises vital to the survival of a country that remained partitioned by three empires. As a sideline, in an effort to appeal to readers' aesthetic sensibilities, Prus wrote short stories.