Paluba

…remembered as the author of Pałuba (“The Hag”), a long novel begun in 1891 and published in 1903. The book combines a penetrating psychological analysis of its characters with a series of digressions on novel writing. Derided upon its publication, Pałuba was reprinted in 1948, following attempts by several critics…

Karol Irzykowski’s Pałuba (1903; “The Hag”) was a bold experiment antedating by several years the psychoanalytical novel in western Europe. In it, motivation and behaviour were presented from different viewpoints, ingeniously cemented by the author’s own analyses, as in a scientific study. Irzykowski was also a critic…