Without Dogma (Annotated)

Henryk Sienkiewicz's Without Dogma is a penetrating psychological novel cast in the form of a diary, tracing the inner life of Leon Płoszowski, a cultivated aristocrat whose intelligence has curdled into skepticism, aestheticism, and moral paralysis. Set against the cosmopolitan milieu of fin-de-siècle Europe, the book departs from Sienkiewicz's historical epics to examine modern decadence, self-c...