Literary Birthday – 7 May – Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont was born on 7 May 1867 and died on 5 December 1925.

Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Quotes

1. It is only our exactions of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice that are terrible–because they never are realised, and at the same time they prevent us taking life as it is. That is the real source of all our sorrow and suffering.
2. I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through the poems I had devoured.
3. Everything must go its own way. One has to plough in order to sow, one has to sow in order to harvest, and what is disturbing has to be weeded out.

Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont was a Polish novelist and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was honoured for his richly detailed and immersive portrayals of rural life. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chlopi (The Peasants). Structured around the changing seasons, the novel depicts life in a Polish village. It blends naturalistic detail with symbolic elements to explore themes of community, tradition, and the rhythms of nature. Reymont also wrote other notable works, including The Promised Land, a portrayal of industrialisation and social inequality. He was awarded the French Legion of Honor.

Image: The W. Reymont Foundation

by Amanda Patterson

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