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Malvina, or the Heart’s Intuition Paperback – May 15, 2012

by Maria Wirtemberska (Author), Ursula Phillips (Translator)
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First published in Warsaw in 1816, Malvina, or the Heart's Intuition has been largely―and unjustly―ignored by the Polish literary canon. Ingeniously structured and vividly related by a Tristram Shandy-esque narrator, Maria Wirtemberska's psychologically complex work is often considered Poland's first modern novel. This splendid translation by Ursula Phillips should restore Wirtemberska to her rightful place in the literary pantheon while providing fertile new ground for the study of the international development of the novel.

The romantic story of the young widow Malvina and her mysterious lover Ludomir, Malvina combines several literary styles and influences―from the epistolary to the Gothic. Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz argues that Malvina is quintessentially a sentimental novel―a model of the genre whose chief aspiration is to promote a change in sensibility and inspire new forces of feeling and imagination. For this reason Wirtemberska may be compared to her English contemporary, Jane Austen. A work of genuine artistic daring and sophistication, Malvina, or the Heart's Intuition has been overlooked by critics for too long, and readers have been denied the pleasure of reading one of literature's major landmarks―until now.

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  1. Print length
    244 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Northern Illinois University Press
  4. Publication date
    May 15, 2012
  5. Reading age
    18 years and up
  6. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.69 x 8.5 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0875804500
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0875804507
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"The novel's freshness and verve are faithfully rendered in Ursula Phillips's excellent, seamless translation. Here the vocabulary of feeling hits its mark and helps make Malvina a contribution to a renewed forging of Polish identity."

--Times Literary Supplement

"Wirtemberska [is] one of the first figures in a now rich tradition of Polish literature written by women. Indeed, Wirtemberska's book remains interesting to this day. . . . Phillips's exceptionally careful translation . . . is original and as graceful as any alternative that comes to mind. . . . [Anyone] with an interest in the novel taking root as a genre or in the early nineteenth-century novel will appreciate this book."

--Slavic and East European Journal

About the Author

Maria Wirtemberska (1768–1854) was a Polish noblewoman and philanthropist in addition to being a writer.

Ursula Phillips is a writer on Polish literature, mainly in the field of women's writing, gender and feminism, and also a translator of literary and academic works, including The Palace by contemporary novelist Wieslaw Mysliwski, historian Antoni Maczak's Travel in Early Modern Europe, Grazyna Borkowska's Alienated Women and the recent research project Humanism in Polish Culture. She is Honorary Research Associate of the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Northern Illinois University Press; Reprint edition (May 15, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 244 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0875804500
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0875804507
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.69 x 8.5 inches
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3.0 out of 5 stars an interesting 19th century novel set in post-partition Poland
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Malvina by Maria Wirtemberska is a 19th century novel about a young noble woman in Polish lands and how she finds, loses, and gains love. This is a romantic novel, in the style of 19th century literature, and so it moves slowly and includes much internal dialog and giving of information to the reader through the vehicle of letters written to other characters. This is not a complicated novel and is somewhat predictable, but having one set in a period of Polish patriotism during the Partition is a welcome find. Hopefully, this will lead to the translation of more works by this author.
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