This novel begins before the invention of the calendar in prehistoric Poland. . . . {It is a} tale of a struggle between Lesniks ('foresters'), a tribe of cave-dwellers, hunters and gatherers, and Poles who already cultivate fields--'pola'--and derive their name from them. . . . The Jew Ben Dosa, a representative of civilization and a self-proclaimed evangelist of a distant religion, tries in vain to acquaint his savage friends with their names; they sound to them like dreams.
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