Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz Collected Plays. Volume 4 Past Mastery and Self-Destructive Form (1922-1925) and Jettisoning Pure Form (1925-1934)

Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz Collected Plays. Volume 4 Past Mastery and Self-Destructive Form (1922-1925) and Jettisoning Pure Form (1925-1934) Synopsis

The four volumes contain all 23 of Witkiewicz's plays in English translation, including The Madman and the Nun, The Crazy Locomotive, The Water Hen, The Shoemaker, They, The Pragmatists, Tumor Brainiowicz, Gyubal Wahazar, The Anonymous Work, The Cuttlefish, The Beelzebub Sonata, as well as essays and introductions by translator Daniel Gerould.

Volume 4 contents:

Past Mastery And Self-Desctructive Form (1922-1925): The Triumph Of Nothingness

• Jan Maciej Karol Hellcat
• The Madman and the Nun
• The Crazy Locomotive
• Janulka, Daughter of Fizdejko
• The Mother
• The Beelzebub Sonata

Jettisoning Pure Form (1925-1934): Demythification and Theatricalism

• The Shoemakers
• Epilogue
• Appendix
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments & Credits (Sources)
• Bibliography
• Selected Critical Studies (In English)