The Mother and Other Unsavory Plays: Including The Shoemakers and They (Mother & Other Unsavory Plays) Review

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(More customer reviews)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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Edited and translated by Daniel Gerould and C.S. Durer, foreword by Jan Kott. Painter, playwrights, novelist, aesthetician, philosopher, and expert on drugs, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz - or Witkacy, as he called himself - remains Poland's outstanding figure in the arts between the two world wars. This volume brings together three of Witkiewicz's best works for the stage as well as a selection from his critical writing.The plays deal with the author's principal themes and obsessions: the dilemma of the artist in the twentieth century; the revolutions in science and politics; and the bankruptcy of all ideology, the decline of western civilization, and the coming of totalitarianism. Yet, far from being solemn or even serious in tone, these apocalyptic dramas are permeated with grotesque humor and characterized by a wild theatricality that particularly appeals to contemporary sensibility.

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