Fachowiec

…Positivism in his first novel, Fachowiec (1895; “A Specialist”). In Próchno (1903; “Rotten Wood”) Berent expressed interest in the decadent lifestyle of artistic bohemians in contemporary urban settings—Berlin, in this case—an interest common to the Young Poland movement. He portrayed domestic problems in his Ozimina (1911; “Winter Crop”), putting a…