page_title: Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
hierarchical_section_title: Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
caption_attribution_description: English: Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, Polish writer (died 1939)
context_page_description: Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz was a Polish writer, journalist and author of over a dozen popular novels. One of his best known works, which in Poland became a byword for fortuitous careerism, was The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma. Literary historians believe that the book inspired the 1971 novel Being There by Jerzy Kosiński who sparked considerable controversy in the West.
context_section_description: Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz ([taˈdɛ.uʐ dɔˈwɛŋɡa mɔˈstɔvitʂ]; 10 August 1898 – 20 September 1939) was a Polish writer, journalist and author of over a dozen popular novels. One of his best known works, which in Poland became a byword for fortuitous careerism, was The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma (Polish: Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy, 1932). Literary historians believe that the book inspired the 1971 novel Being There by Jerzy Kosiński who sparked considerable controversy in the West.
caption: Dołęga-Mostowicz in interwar Poland
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