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The brilliant dramatist-novelist-portraitist Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz made up the name Witkacy to distinguish himself from his well-known father, a realist painter in Russian Poland. Largely the product of his father's determined educational theories, Witkacy struggled to form his own individuality and follow his own instincts. As a result he was to become a major figure in the European avant-garde of the inter-war period, though recognition came only posthumously, first in Poland after the liberalization of 1956, then in Europe and America during the 1960s and 1970s. In this perceptive, multifaceted study of Witkacy as a imaginative writer, Daniel Gerould approaches the plays and novels individually and reveals how the playwright-novelist developed the skills to blend together all the complex ingredients of his remarkable works. Also adept at painting, music, philosophy, and mathematics, Witkacy combined this knowledge with amazing imaginative energy to create a radically nonrealistic theater that anticipated the theater of the absurd by two decades. Although certain writers such as Shakespeare, Strindberg, and Conrad influence him deeply, he was compelled to picture them as pa

Author

Daniel Charles Gerould

Publisher

Seattle: University of Washington Press

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780295957142

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Language Learning, Humanities