The Witkiewicz Reader by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

The Witkiewicz Reader by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

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.

Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy: - Painter, photographer, novelist, and playwright, Stanis?aw Ignacy Witkiewicz (known as Witkacy) was born on February 24, 1885, in Warsaw, but grew up and lived most of his life in Zakopane. After witnessing firsthand the Russian Revolution, he returned to Poland in 1918 and joined the Formists, a group of artists pursuing a program of Pure Form. Over the next two decades Witkacy penned a number of plays and his two great dystopian novels. Sandwiched between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invading Poland in early September 1939, he committed suicide on September 18 in the village of Jeziory.

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ISBN 13	9780810109940
ISBN 10	0810109948
Title	The Witkiewicz Reader
Author	Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Northwestern University Press
Year published	1992-12-31
Number of pages	359
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