In the history of letters, Bolesław Leśmian is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Bolesław Leśmian as Polish writer (1877–1937).
Bolesław Leśmian was born at Warsaw in 1877. His recorded nationality is Poland. He was educated at Faculty of Law of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, literary form itself came under argument, and the certainties of the realist novel were dismantled.
He worked as poet lawyer, writer and poet.
The writing is recorded in Polish and Russian.
A writer's real subject usually becomes visible only across the whole body of work.
That the work was written from Poland matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Bolesław Leśmian died in 1937, aged 60. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
