Bøger af Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

"Nienasycenie" is a novel by the Polish writer, dramatist, philosopher, painter and photographer, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, written in 1927 and first published in 1930. The utopian story takes place in the future, around 2000. After a battle, Poland is overrun by the army of the last and final Mongol conquests modelled on the Bolshevik revolution. The nation becomes enslaved to a fictional Chinese leader Murti Bing. His emissaries give everyone a special pill called DAVAMESK B 2 which takes away their ability to think and their will to resist. East and West become one, in faceless misery fuelled by sexual instincts.

This volume contains two of Witkacy's "tropical" plays inspired by the playwright's trip to Ceylon and Australia in 1914 with anthropologist, Bronislaw Malinowski.

Country House, a "comedy with corpses," is a wicked subversion of all those realistic psychological dramas of jealousy, adultery, murder and suicide that ask to be taken seriously.

Startling discontinuities and surprises erupt throughout these avant-garde landscapes by Poland''s outstanding modern dramatist where duchesses and policemen, gangsters and surrealist painters, psychiatrists and locomotive engineers wander in and out, kill one another, and carry on philosophical conversations at the same time.

THE MOTHER AND OTHER UNSAVORY PLAYS