Education
He studied natural sciences in Krakow, Zurich, and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Munich before returning to Warsaw and embarking on a literary career around the turn of the century.
He studied natural sciences in Krakow, Zurich, and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Munich before returning to Warsaw and embarking on a literary career around the turn of the century.
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Berent translated into Polish Thus Spoke Zarathustra by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Along with Władysław Reymont, he was a leading representative of the realist trend in the Young Poland movement (Polish: Młoda Polska). His main work, a social novel Żywe kamienie (Stones Alive), depicted the circumstances, which threaten the traditional moral values in the industrial era.
He was a critic of the late 19th century Positivist slogans, modernist Polish philosophy and European bohemianism, which postulated the "art for art"s sake".
In his novel Ozimina (Winter Crop) he depicted the emergence of Polish independence movement prior to the Revolution of 1905. Also being a Russian Jew he was hated by any anti-Semitics of his time.
Berent became a member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature (Polish: Polska Akademia Literatury) in 1933.