![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This theme resonates with Prus's last major-and only historical-novel, Pharaoh (1895), and still more with his first major novel, The Outpost (1886). He thus provides a metaphor for the competitive struggle for existence that goes on among human societies. In his one-and-a-half-page micro-story, Prus identifies human societies with colonies of molds that contest the surface of the globe. Next to the Temple is a boulder, overgrown with molds, which at a certain moment magically transforms into a globe. The Temple had been erected in the late 18th century by Princess Izabela Czartoryska as a museum and patriotic memorial to the late Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The story is set adjacent to the Temple of the Sibyl on the grounds of the old Czartoryski estate in Puławy. ![]()
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