Word: marusia
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...story he is about to write based on his experiences as a war-prisoner in Turkestan. Page by page, as he writes it, it is sandwiched in between his journal entries. The same people appear in the diary as in the novel: Stanislaw, his wife Zosia, his friend Felix, Marusia, his Turkestan inamorata. In the diary you see Stanislaw's life as a government clerk, his evenings devoted to writing, his wife's attempts to make him a social celebrity, her flirtations to arouse his jealousy. The novel tells of two Austro-Polish war-prisoners (Stanislaw, his friend...
Here the novel breaks off, the diary becomes agitated; Stanislaw has heard Marusia is still alive, still remembers him. Frantically he wires, sends messages, money. The little son he has never seen is brought to him. Marusia has died of cholera on the trip. Stanislaw and his wife patch up the pieces, go on again from...
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