"Witkiewicz takes up and continues the vein of dream and grotesque fantasy exemplified by the late Strindberg or by Wedekind; his ideas are closely paralleled by those of the surrealists and Antonin Artaud which culminated in the masterpieces of the dramatists of the absurd-Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Arrabal-of the late nineteen forties and the nineteen fifties." -Martin EsslinStanisaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (pen name: Witkacy) was desperate to get out of...