Editing Władysław Reymont (section)

==Work==
[[File:Wladyslaw Reymont 1897 (71364799) (cropped).jpg|thumb|125px|Reymont]]
[[File:Rekopis Chlopi.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Manuscript of opening of ''The Peasants: Autumn'']]
When his ''Korespondencje'' (''Correspondence'') from [[Rogów, Brzeziny County|Rogów]], [[Koluszki]] and [[Skierniewice]] was accepted for publication by ''Głos'' (''The Voice'') in Warsaw in 1892, he returned to Warsaw, with several unpublished short stories and just a few rubles. Reymont visited the editorial offices of newspapers and magazines, and eventually met other writers who became interested in his talent including Świętochowski. In 1894 he went on an eleven-day pilgrimage to [[Częstochowa]] and turned his experience there into a report entitled "Pielgrzymka do Jasnej Góry" (Pilgrimage to the [[Jasna Góra|Luminous Mount]]) published in 1895, and considered his classic example of travel writing.<ref name="nobelprize-2" />

Rejmont sent his short stories to different magazines and, encouraged by good reviews, decided to write novels: ''Komediantka'' (''The Deceiver'') (1895) and ''Fermenty'' (''Ferments'') (1896). No longer poor, he would soon satisfy his passion for travel, visiting Berlin, London, Paris, and Italy. Then, he spent a few months in Łódź collecting material for a new novel ordered by the ''Kurier Codzienny'' (''The Daily Courier'') from Warsaw. The earnings from this book ''[[The Promised Land (novel)|Ziemia Obiecana]]'' (''The Promised Land'') (1899) enabled him to go on his next trip to France where he socialized with other exiled Poles ([[Jan Lorentowicz]], [[Stefan Żeromski|Żeromski]], [[Stanisław Przybyszewski|Przybyszewski]] and [[Lucjan Rydel]]).

His earnings did not allow for this kind of life of travel. However, in 1900 he was awarded 40,000 rubles in compensation from the [[Warsaw-Vienna Railway]] after an accident in which Reymont was severely injured. During the treatment he was looked after by Aurelia Szacnajder Szabłowska, whom he married in 1902, having first paid for the annulment of her earlier marriage. Thanks to her discipline, he marginally restrained his travel-mania, but never gave up either his stays in France (where he partly wrote ''Chłopi'' between 1901 and 1908) or in [[Zakopane]]. Rejmont also journeyed to the United States in 1919 at the (Polish) government's expense. Despite his ambitions to become a landowner, which led to an unsuccessful attempt to manage an estate he bought in 1912 near [[Sieradz]], the life of the land proved not to be for him. He would later buy a mansion in [[Kołaczkowo, Września County|Kołaczkowo]] near [[Poznań]] in 1920, but still spent his winters in Warsaw or France.