• Czyta: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
• Czas: okolo 9 godzin
• Format: 5.70" x 4.92" (14,5 x 12,5 cm), pudelko
• Rok wydania: 2006
• Wydawnictwo: RTW
• Wydanie na 12 CD

Lalka to wyjatkowa ksiazka w polskiej literaturze. O milosci, a wlasciwie o namietnosci i klesce romantyzmu. Jest to rowniez wyjatkowe dzielo literackie. Pomysl na przeplatanie narracji trzecioosobowej (autorskiej) narracja pierwszoosobowa ("Pamietnik starego subiekta") doprowadzil do stworzenia powiesci prawie doskonalej.

In Polish Only!

• The Doll by Boleslaw Prus
• Read by: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
• Duration: approximately 9 hours
• Format: 5.70" x 4.92" (14,5 x 12,5 cm)
• Release year: 2006
• Publisher: RTW
• On 12 CD s

The Doll, covering one and a half years of present time, comprises two parallel narratives. One opens with events of 1878 and recounts the career of the protagonist, Stanislaw Wokulski, a man in early middle age. The other narrative, in the guise of a diary kept by Wokulski's older friend Ignacy Rzecki, takes the reader back to the 1848-49 "Spring of Nations."

Boleslaw Prus wrote The Doll with such close attention to the physical detail of Warsaw that it was possible, in the Interbellum, to precisely locate the very buildings where, fictively, Wokulski had lived and his store had been located. Prus thus did for Warsaw in The Doll in 1889 what James Joyce was famously to do for his own capital city, Dublin, in the novel Ulysses a third of a century later, in 1922.

The Doll, rich in characters and observations from everyday Warsaw life, in Czeslaw Milosz's opinion embodies 19th-century realistic prose at its best. It brings its protagonist to a full awareness of the chasm that stretches between his dreams and the social reality that surrounds him.