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Author: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz Publisher: Northwestern University Press ISBN: 9780810109940 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 404
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Forgotten during the Stalin years, Stanislaw Witkiewicz (1885-1939) was rediscovered in his native Poland only after the liberalization of 1956, when his works came to play a major role in freeing the arts from socialist realism. This collection, the first anthology in English, presents Witkiewicz in the full range of his creative and intellectual activities. The Witkiewicz Reader includes excerpts from three novels; four complete plays; letters to Malinowski; and selections from aesthetic, social, and philosophical essays detailing Witkiewicz's theory of Pure Form, his metaphysical system, and his apocalyptic view of the fate of civilization.
Author: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz Publisher: Northwestern University Press ISBN: 9780810109940 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 404
Book Description
Forgotten during the Stalin years, Stanislaw Witkiewicz (1885-1939) was rediscovered in his native Poland only after the liberalization of 1956, when his works came to play a major role in freeing the arts from socialist realism. This collection, the first anthology in English, presents Witkiewicz in the full range of his creative and intellectual activities. The Witkiewicz Reader includes excerpts from three novels; four complete plays; letters to Malinowski; and selections from aesthetic, social, and philosophical essays detailing Witkiewicz's theory of Pure Form, his metaphysical system, and his apocalyptic view of the fate of civilization.
Author: Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz Publisher: Northwestern University Press ISBN: 0810111330 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 540
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Witkiewicz's 1927 masterpiece, made famous in Polish dissident and Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz's The Captive Mind, is one of the most unforgettable depictions of the tensions and trade-offs between ideological loyalty and individual conscience in world literature. Futuristic, experimental, and remarkably prophetic, Insatiability traces the choices of a young Pole as his divided nation both opposes and welcomes a communitarian invasion from the east offering a narcotic that both removes anxieties and induces obedience. An anti-Utopian classic, it foretold the irresoluble and sometimes deadly choices that faced Eastern European thinkers, writers, and politicians during the years of Soviet domination.
Author: Stanis_aw Ignacy Witkiewicz Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN: 9781557831392 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 260
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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.
Author: Teresa Pękala Publisher: Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance ISBN: 9783631669051 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book focuses on Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, philosopher and controversial artist. It expresses the opinions of philosophers, museologists and artists, for whom Stanislaw Ignacy Witkacy's 130th birthday anniversary became an opportunity to view his works from the perspective of postmodernity. The authors concentrate on Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz as eminent and prophetic philosopher concerned about Western culture with its waning metaphysical feelings, master of gesture and poses, anticipating the postmodern theatricalization of life.
Author: Stanislav I. Witkiewicz Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135299897 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 104
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Country House, a ''comedy with corpses,'' is a wicked subversion of all those realistic psychological dramas of jealousy, adultery, murder and suicide that ask to be taken seriously. Witkacy's send-up assumes the form of a ghost story full of surprises, in the course of which an entire family of four is gleefully dispatched to the other world. When it was first performed in 1923 in Torun, Country House was judged unsuitable for the general public because it derided moral, social and dramatic convention. Three years later, as directed by the playwright himself in Lwów, the drama proved an unexpected success with audiences (although it only ran for four nights) and ever since has been among Witkacy's most frequently performed works. Today we can appreciate Country House not only as a systematic demolition of stage realism, but also as an anxious probing of the elusive boundaries between life and death, exposing the ''dark places'' of the human psyche that make us laugh nervously.
Author: Daniel Charles Gerould Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press ISBN: 9780295957142 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 362
Author: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Author: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Author: Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Author: Stanis_aw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Author: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Author: Teresa Pękala
Author: Beata Zgodzińska-Wojciechowska
Author: Stanislav I. Witkiewicz
Author: Daniel Charles Gerould
Author: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Author: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz