Insatiability by Stanis Aw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Witkiewicz's 1927 masterpiece, made famous in Polish dissident and Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz'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.These tragedies are Witkiewicz's image of the artist, overflowing with hyper-vivid people and rash acts, providing a panorama of a deranged era on the verge of calamity as well as a fractured mirror reflecting the author's own mercurial visage. Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at City University of New York's Graduate Center; Executive Director, Martin E. Witkacy, Guillotine: Its Legend and Lore, Theatre/Theory/Theatre, and translations of Polish and Russian drama; editor, Slavic and East European Performance; editor, Routledge Harwood Polish and East European Theatre Archive; author of Witkacy, Guillotine: Its Legend and Lore, Theatre/Theory/Theatre; author of Witkacy, Guillotine: Its Legend and Lore, Theatre/Theor
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| ISBN 13 | 9780810111332 |
| ISBN 10 | 0810111330 |
| Titel | Insatiability |
| Autor | Stanis Aw Ignacy Witkiewicz |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Northwestern University Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1996-06-17 |
| Seitenanzahl | 534 |
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