Curious Details

• First love
  At the age of 9, he fell in love with 26-year-old woman. He was then that he wrote his first „poem d'amour."
  
  
• Reymont - spiritualist
  Towards the end 1980-ies Reymont met Puszow who was a spiritualist. Puszow discovered that Reymont could be a fairly good medium. Reymont followed Puszow as far as Germany, then he move to Wroclaw, where the principal spiritualists' church was located. But soon Reymont saw the naivety of this „science" and left Wroc3aw.
  
  
• Reymont - unpeaceful spirit
  As soon as in his school years (1878-84), his nustable nature was conspicuous. He was moved from one school to another. He could find no place to stay for a long period of time. He would go into crafts or commercial Retivities. He also performed in some nomadic theatre group. Several times he startd, gave up and resummed work for the Polish Railways. He also considered religious education and career. He would change his place of living very often incleecl every now and then.
  
  
• Interesting genealogy
  Baltazar - Raymont's ancestor - was Swedish. In the 17th century, as a soldier under the swedish King Karol Gustaw, he took part in so-called Swedish Deluge and in the siege of „Jasna Góra". He was taken prisner and stayed in Poland. He was called Baker. He married a Polish woman. A hundred years later one of his grand-grand sons would say: „Let a regiment of devils take you all away" /Direct translation of Polish old-fashioned jargon. In old Polish the word „regiment" was „rejment"/ This gave the family name „Reyment".
  
  
• An excellent story-teller
  He loved story-telling. Once, when he was telling his friend a crime story, which was just nother idea for a book, the waiter in the pub they were sitting in actually believed that thay were planning a robbery
  
  
• Amattor of experience
  Reymont would basically deseribe only what he experinced himself. Before getting down to writing he would often try to learn a great deal about the communities he would treat in his novels. Prior to writing „The peasants" he lived in the country, near the village Lipce. Prior to composing „The promissed land" he lived in the city of Lódź and worked for a weaver.