Kobiele Wielkie appears in the account of Władysław Stanisław Reymont’s early life as his family’s village of origin before its move to Tuszyn. Its significance here is biographical: it marks an earlier home, not the village where the account says he spent his first twelve years.

Place in Reymont’s Early Life

After Reymont’s birth, his family moved from Kobiele Wielkie to Tuszyn. The account gives no further details about the village or the circumstances of the move, but establishes Kobiele Wielkie as part of the family’s history before Reymont’s childhood in Tuszyn.

Relation to His Work

The account connects Reymont’s later writing about village life to his experience growing up in Tuszyn and identifies Lipce—not Kobiele Wielkie—as the name adopted for the setting of The Peasants. Kobiele Wielkie therefore has a limited but distinct role in the biographical narrative: it is the family’s earlier village, rather than the rural setting specifically associated with the novel.