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The Undivine Comedy

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Also known as: “Nieboska komedia”

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In Zygmunt Krasiński
In Nieboska komedia (1835; The Undivine Comedy) he presents a future struggle between the masses and the privileged that represents the first literary expression of class war. In his second important play, Irydion (1836; Eng. trans. Irydion)—the story of a Greek named Irydion who seeks vengeance on imperial Rome—Krasiński…
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In Polish literature: Romanticism
…his works) Nieboska komedia (1835; The Undivine Comedy), which presented, for the first time in Europe, a struggle between opposed worlds of aristocracy and disinherited proletarian masses. Irydion (1836; Eng. trans. Iridion), his second play, was an allegory of Poland’s fate. In Przedświt (1843; “The Moment Before Dawn”) he developed…
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