REBELLION

UPRISING

In 1924, co-candidates for the Nobel were Thomas Mann, Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw – we never read in Greek the one who took it from them, the Pole Władysław Stanisław Raymond with the book REVOLT. We are also never told that the honored work was probably modeled on her Animal Farm Orwell's.

A translation feat by Anastasia Hatzigiannidis, an epimeter that puts the basics in their place, an original collage by Athena Stamatis, the blessings of the Polish Book Institute: the Greek edition of this great work. An allegory that, using the animal revolution against human cruelty, reflects on the fate of rebellions and the power of volunteerism.

A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Władysław Stanisław Reymont was born in 1867 in a village in central Poland, then part of the Russian Empire. He was brought up by his uncles in Warsaw and in 1885 he passed an examination to become a tailor; he never practiced the trade but lived for some years as a nomad with a traveling provincial troupe and then worked as a railway clerk until 1892 when his first works were accepted for publication in writing. Since then, he has devoted himself to writing and traveling. His best-known and widely translated works are the realistic novel Promised Land, a panorama of the city of Łódź during the industrial revolution, and the four-volume "national epic" Peasants, about the harsh life in the Polish countryside.

Uprising is his last, darkest and most paradoxical work.

It was published in 1924, the year in which he was awarded the Nobel Prize, a year before his death. The book, a relentless parable about the revolution of animals hungry for equality and freedom and its tragic end, remained banned from 1945 to 1989.