įor sentimental reasons, the narrator purchases the waistcoat (vest) of the story's title for half a ruble from a Jewish peddler it had belonged to the narrator's neighbor. All the action takes place within an enclosed space: the narrator is, as it were, a viewer in a movie theater, whose screen is his neighbors' window across the courtyard. The story is contemporary with its author and plays out in an old Warsaw tenement building. The story has been translated into Czech, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, and Slovak. The narrator, the title waistcoat's current owner, reconstructs its history, based on his observations of the lives of its original owner and his wife. It is a sketch of everyday life of impoverished Warsaw residents. " The Waistcoat" (" Kamizelka" ) is an 1882 short story by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus, and is considered a masterpiece of short-story writing.
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