Wacław Berent

He studied Natural Science in Kraków and Zurich, and obtained a PhD in Munich before returning to Warsaw and embarking on a literary career around the turn of the century.

[3] Berent translated into Polish Thus Spoke Zarathustra by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

Along with Władysław Reymont, he was a leading representative of the realist trend in the Young Poland movement (Polish: Młoda Polska).

[1] His main work, a social novel Żywe kamienie (Stones Alive), depicted the circumstances which threatened traditional moral values in the industrial era.

In his novel Ozimina (Winter Crop) he depicted the emergence of the Polish independence movement prior to the Revolution of 1905.