From: http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,728112,00.html The Author. St. Reymont was born in 1868 in what was then Russian Poland. His family was large, poor, patriotic. His mother and her five brothers took part in the Polish insurrection of 1863 against Russia. He, too, is a patriot. He has been telegraph operator, actor, railway clerk, farmer, even spent months in a Paulist monastery. ________ Lavrentiy Krupniak Margaret Mikulska wrote: > > KarenHob@aol.com wrote: > > > "The Peasants " by Ladislas Reymont, Knopf 1927 > > > > is a book recommended for details of the everyday lives of Galician > > farmers. I assume it covers both Germans and Poles. > > The village from Reymont's novel is not in Galicia -- it's in central > Poland, under Russian occupation. This is clear from a few scenes and > references in the book: conscription/draft scene, references to a > Russian prison, the issue of a Russian school. > > Out of curiosity, what makes people think the village is in Galicia? > > -Margaret Mikulska > silvagen@gmail.com > > ==== GERMAN-BOHEMIAN Mailing List ==== > Would you like to see messages that were posted before you joined the list? > Visit http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/mailinglist.html and request an archive.