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.
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Original Language: Polish
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For anyone not familiar with Witkiewicz's work a fine intro.,
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This review is from: The Madman and the Nun and The Crazy Locomotive: Three Plays (including The Water Hen) (Paperback)
Not as thoroughly satisfying as Gerould's Madman And The Nun And Other Plays By Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, this books sandwiches the playwright's crowning achievement (The Water Hen) between his two most accessible works (Madman And The Nun and Crazy Locomotive). Nothing really new here, but since other English editions of Poland's greatest 20th century playwright are currently out of print, this slender volume should be considered indespensible. I just wish the publishers saw fit to include more. As for Gerould's translations, they are quite splendid, of course, as well they should be since they have occupied the greater part of this dramaturgical scholar's life.
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I MET Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewics five or six years before the Second World War. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Sister Barbara, The Shoemakers, New York, Professor Walldorff, Czeslaw Milosz, Edgar Valpor, Mother Superior, Second World War, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, Exit Jan, First World War, Jan Kott, New Guinea, Russian Revolution, Theosophical Jam Company, Tom Hoozy, Bronislaw Malinowski, Edgar Nevermore, Erna Abracadabra, South Sea Islands, United States New!
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Sister Barbara, The Shoemakers, New York, Professor Walldorff, Czeslaw Milosz, Edgar Valpor, Mother Superior, Second World War, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, Exit Jan, First World War, Jan Kott, New Guinea, Russian Revolution, Theosophical Jam Company, Tom Hoozy, Bronislaw Malinowski, Edgar Nevermore, Erna Abracadabra, South Sea Islands, United States New!
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- The Street of Crocodiles (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Bruno Schulz on page 35, and page 36
- Ghost Sonata and When We Dead Awaken (Crofts Classics) by August Strindberg on page 6, and page 7
- A Dream Play by Caryl Churchill on page 6, and page 7
- August Strindberg (Grove Press Modern Dramatists) by Margery Morgan on page 6
- Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett on page 83
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