The Mother and Other Unsavory Plays (Paperback) Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

The Mother and Other Unsavory PlaysIncluding The Shoemakers and They\nAuthor(s): Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation, United States\nImprint: Applause Theatre Book Publishers\nISBN-13: 9781557831392, 978-1557831392\nSynopsis\nEdited and translated by Daniel Gerould and [url] 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 .