Wacław Berent

Wacław Berent (September 28, 1873 - 19 or 22 November, 1940) was a Polish novelist and translator in Art Nouveau. He was born and died in Warsaw.

He was a critic of positivism's slogans, modernistic Polish philosophy and European bohemianism, which postulated easement in the face of the art. In his novel Ozimina (English: Winter Corn) he depicted waking up the strivings for independence in Poland. He was opponent of Romanticism. His main work was Żywe kamienie (Alive Stones), in which he depicted the risks which threaten the moral values in the industrial inventions era. In 1933, he became a member of the Polish Literature Academy (Polish: Polska Akademia Literatury).

Works

• Próchno (Rotten Wood) (1903)
• Ozimina (Winter Corn) (1911)
• Żywe kamienie (Alive Stones) (1918)
• Nurt (Trend) (1934)
• Diogenes w kontuszu (Diogenes in a Kontusz) (1937)
• Zmierzch wodzów (The Dusk of the Commanders) (1939)