>>4272950Stanislaw Wokulski is known as a complex, ambitious businessman and former insurgent whose life is torn between practical success and romantic idealism. In The Doll (Lalka), he makes a fortune and tries to enter Warsaw's aristocratic society, largely to win the love of Izabela Lecka. His unreturned, ultimately devastating love-and the clash between his bourgeois origins and aristocratic aspirations-are central to his story.