Search for: [Abstract = "Therefore, despite the presence of the elements of a \"mystery novel\" and the traces of the romantic frenetic poetics in the works by Dzierzkowski, we have to the deal, first of all, with the model of the social novel here. Estimating the relationships between \"Lounge and street\" and the works by E. Sue, one can notice Dzierzkowski`s fascination with this form of the popular novel as well as its influence on the reader of those times, in the process of transmission of weighty social ideas. This is the model of the social novel that the later tendentious prose of the period of positivism precedes."]