In the face of an absolute catastrophe - the invasion of Poland from one side by Nazi Fascists and Soviet Communists from the other - Wladyslaw Ignacy Witkiewicz sees only one way out of the situation for himself - on September 18 1939 he commits suicide . CLICK THIS LINK : culture.pl/en/article/an-alternative-biography-of-witkacy Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz 24 February 1885 – 18 September 1939), commonly known as Witkacy, was a Polish poet, playwright, novelist, painter, photographer and philosopher. Born in Warsaw, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz was a son of the painter, architect and an art critic Stanisław Witkiewicz. His mother was Maria Pietrzkiewicz Witkiewiczowa. Both of his parents were born in the Samogitian region of Lithuania. His godmother was the internationally famous actress Helena Modrzejewska. (When traveling through America his godmother was asked by a this question by a wife of a rich Texas oil man How do you wash your jewels?. When my opals get dirty I soak them in milk. Then my emeralds get dirty I soak them (in something I forgot ). When my diamonds get dirty (I forgot that one too). To which Witkacys mom answered, When my jewels get dirty I throw them out .... :) ) Plays Maciej Korbowa i Bellatrix (Maciej Korbowa and Bellatrix)(1918) Pragmatyści (1919) (translated into English as The Pragmatists) Mister Price, czyli Bzik tropikalny (1920) (translated into English as Mr Price, or Tropical Madness) Bob DeFrank and Ann Crumb in a scene from Paul Bermans production of Witkacys The Madman and the Nun, Theatre Off Park, 1979, NYC. (photo: Tobias Haller) Tumor Mózgowicz (1920) (translated into English as Tumor Brainiowicz) Nowe wyzwolenie (1920) (translated into English as The New Deliverance) Oni (1920) (translated into English as They) Panna Tutli-Putli (1920) (Miss Tootli-Pootli) W małym dworku (1921) (translated into English as Country House) Niepodległość trójkątów (1921) (translated into English as The Independence of Triangles) Metafizykja dwugłowego cielęcia (1921) (translated into English as Metaphysics of a Two-Headed Calf) Gyubal Wahazar, czyli Na przełęczach bezsensu (translated into English as Gyubal Wahazar, or Along the Cliffs of the Absurd: A Non-Euclidean Drama in Four Acts) (1921) Kurka Wodna (1921) (Translated into English as The Water Hen) Tobias Haller, James Curran, Nat Warren-White, and Betty LaRoe in Brad Mays production of Witkacys The Water Hen, Theatre Off Park, 1983, NYC. Bezimienne dzieło (1921) (translated into English as The Anonymous Work: Four Acts of a Rather Nasty Nightmare) Mątwa (1922) (translated into English as The Cuttlefish, or The Hyrcanian World View) Nadobnisie i koczkodany, czyli Zielona pigułka (1922) (Translated into English as Dainty Shapes and Hairy Apes, or The Green Pill: A Comedy with Corpses) Jan Maciej Karol Wścieklica (1922) (translated into English as Jan Maciej Karol Hellcat) Wariat i zakonnica (1923) (translated into English as The Madman and the Nun) Szalona lokomotywa (1923) (translated into English as The Crazy Locomotive) Janulka, córka Fizdejki (1923) (translated into English as Janulka, Daughter of Fizdejko) Matka (1924) translated into English as The Mother (in The Mother & Other Unsavoury Plays, Applause, 1993) Sonata Belzebuba (1925) (translated into English as The Beelzebub Sonata) Szewcy (1931–34) translated into English as The Shoemakers (in The Mother & Other Unsavoury Plays, Applause, 1993) Other works[edit] Narkotyki — niemyte dusze (1932), partial translation into English as Narcotics (in The Witkiewicz Reader) Pojęcia i twierdzenia implikowane przez pojęcie istnienia (Concepts and Statements Implied by the Idea of Existence) (1935) Jedyne wyjście Kompozycia fantastyczna Pocałunek mongolskiego księcia culture.pl/en/article/an-alternative-biography-of-witkacy
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