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"Shades" (Polish: "''Cienie''") is one of Bolesław Prus' shortest micro-stories. Written in 1885, it comes from a several years' period of pessimism in the author's life caused partly by the 1883 failure of ''Nowiny'' (News), a Warsaw daily that he had been editing less than a year. Prus, the "lamplighter" who had striven to dispel darkness and its attendant "fear, error and crime," had failed to sufficiently interest the public in his "observatory of societal facts," ''Nowiny''.〔Christopher Kasparek, "Two Micro-Stories by Bolesław Prus," ''The Polish Review'', 1995, no. 1, p. 99.〕 "Shades" is one of several micro-stories by Bolesław Prus that were inspired partly by 19th-century French prose poetry.〔Zygmunt Szweykowski, ''Twórczość Bolesława Prusa'', p. 99.〕 Prus scholar Zygmunt Szweykowski writes: Prus' micro-story "Shades" comprises two successive parts. The first half evokes the above-described atmosphere of dread, via Prus' description of an eternal contest between light and darkness. The second half of the micro-story pictures the efforts of one of a number of nameless lamplighters to dispel the darkness, for as long as his limited lifespan permits. ==See also== * "Mold of the Earth" (a micro-story by Bolesław Prus). * "The Living Telegraph" (a micro-story by Bolesław Prus). * Prose poetry. * "A Legend of Old Egypt" (Prus' first historical short story). * Darkness. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shades (story)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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