Chyła, Karolina2022-12-292022-12-292022-12Tematy i Konteksty 12(17) 2022, s. 312–3292299-8365https://repozytorium.ur.edu.pl/handle/item/8419This article analyses complex and ambiguous aspects of modernisation, depicted by Stefan Żeromski in his intriguing but rather obscure novel “Promień” [“The Ray”] (1898). The writer chooses a provincial town for his scenery – although based on Kielce, it is hidden with a fictional name – which experiences an industrial revolution in miniature. A railroad built in the area, old, solid shops and enterprises brought to death by the modern way of trade and a shockingly radical local newspaper ran by the novel’s protagonists are just a few most striking symptoms of that inevitable and unsettling process of change.polAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Polandhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl/Stefan ŻeromskiPromień [The Ray]modernityturn of the 19th and 20th centurynowoczesnośćprzełom XIX i XX w.article10.15584/tik.2022.212719-8561