Witkacy: Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz as an Imaginative Writer

by Daniel Charles Gerould

The brilliant dramatist-novelist-portraitist Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz made up the name Witkacy to distinguish himself from his well-known father, a realist painter in Russian Poland. Largely the product of his father's determined educational theories, Witkacy struggled to form his own individuality and follow his own instincts. As a result he was to become a major figure in the European avant-garde of the inter-war period, though recognition came...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029595714X
• ISBN13: 9780295957142
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher