Without Dogma

"Without Dogma" – a diary novel that became significant in the creative biography of Sienkiewicz. It was highly praised by Kuprin, Chekhov, and Tolstoy, who noted its profound psychology.

This novel is about the "superfluous man," Leon Ploshovsky, characterized by skepticism, individualism, identification with the "European man," and a complete absence of "dogmas" – the concepts of morality and duty. Having once committed a thoughtless act, he forever loses the chance to love and become a happy person, for only "with love does life have value; without it – it's not worth a broken penny"...