The Mother and Other Unsavory Plays Witkiewicz Stanislaw IgnacyPaperback
The Mother and Other Unsavory Plays Witkiewicz Stanislaw IgnacyPaperback Edited and translated by Daniel Gerould and C.S. Painter, playwrights, novelist, aesthetician, philosopher, and expert on…
Specifikacia The Mother and Other Unsavory Plays Witkiewicz Stanislaw IgnacyPaperback
The Mother and Other Unsavory Plays Witkiewicz Stanislaw IgnacyPaperback
Edited and translated by Daniel Gerould and C.S. 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. Durer, foreword by Jan Kott.
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. This volume brings together three of Witkiewicz's best works for the stage as well as a selection from his critical writing. 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.
The Other Mother
Frogs and Other Plays
Heracles and Other Plays
Bacchae and Other Plays
Electra and Other Plays
Orestes and Other Plays
Persians and Other Plays
Rover and Other Plays
Orestes and Other Plays
The Other Mother
Electra and Other Plays