Krzyzanowski, Jerzy R. “Boleslaw Prus: 'A Mistake'.”

In "The mistake" Prus writes about the uprising, but he is able to do it in such a way that the audience know what he is writing about, without mentioning the time period. 34 He also uses an eight year old boy as the narrator which offers a bit of making strange. An old man is executed for treason and is innocent. rejection of romanticism and putting forth the P theory. 38 He is able to get across the feeling from twenty years before in his story and still is not able to simply write about it because of the Russian occupation. 39