The article refers to the relationships between Lalka (The Doll) by Boleslaw Prus and the publicist context represented mainly by "Kurier Codzienny" ("Daily Courier") in which between 1887 and 1889 the first publication of the novel appeared in episodes. The author, however, does not mean a fictional structure related to so-called novel in episodes, well researched also by Polish literary scholars. He is interested in what results from setting a literary text against a newspaper page, focuses on literary genre similarities between the novel and the feuilleton, on every allusion to present affairs included into the neighboring informative sections. The author also pays attention to temporal, geographical and social dimension of the novel when he compares the aforementioned dimension with that of a daily. In his view, it was the press context that made an important background for The Doll's readers in "Daily Courier" and proved decisive in the novel's realistic reception.
