Witkacy: Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz as an Imaginative Writer

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.

In this perceptive, multifaceted study of Witkacy as a imaginative writer, Daniel Gerould approaches the plays and novels individually and reveals how the playwright-novelist developed the skills to blend together all the complex ingredients of his remarkable works.