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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A spectacular talent,
By Ignacio (Portland OR USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Mother and Other Unsavory Plays: Including The Shoemakers and They (Mother & Other Unsavory Plays) (Paperback)
Witkiewicz is so gifted that his very brilliance almost works against him at times. But "The Mother" (and in another volume "The Madman and the Nun") are masterpieces of 20th century theatre. I first ran into Witkiewicz while looking for no particular reason at an issue of Poland magazine when I was 16 years old. His work has been one of the biggest influences on my own thought (such as it ever has been and is). His novel "Insatiability" is on the level of the tremendous books by pre-Hitler German writers such as Hermann Broch, Alfred Doblin, Thomas Mann and Joseph Frank. The best comparison may be to Bruno Schulz and Witold Gombrowicz (the latter was the only one of the three to survive WWII.)
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The Mother and Other Unsavory Plays: Including The Shoemakers and They (Mother & Other Unsavory Plays) by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Paperback - May 1, 2000)
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