Edited and translated by Daniel Gerould and C.S. Durer, foreword by
Jan Kott. Painter, playwrights, novelist, aesthetician,
philosopher, and expert on drugs, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz - or
Witkacy, as he called himself - remains Poland's outstanding figure
in the arts between the two world wars. This volume brings together
three of Witkiewicz's best works for the stage as well as a
selection from his critical writing. The plays deal with the
author's principal themes and obsessions: the dilemma of the artist
in the twentieth century; the revolutions in science and politics;
and the bankruptcy of all ideology, the decline of western
civilization, and the coming of totalitarianism. Yet, far from
being solemn or even serious in tone, these apocalyptic dramas are
permeated with grotesque humor and characterized by a wild
theatricality that particularly appeals to contemporary
sensibility.
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