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- W28945263 abstract "Academics, directors, and theatre artists must be elated that Daniel Gerould's Witkacy offers such a detailed explication of the works of the ec centric and erratic Polish playwright and novelist. Witkacy's dramaturgy, for which he is predominately acknowledged, exudes a dynamic creativity; it is a most difficult sensibility of modern drama to deal with. I recall attending the opening of Witkacy's The Water Hen at the Brooklyn Academy with a friend who was a psychiatric social worker. Her response during the intermission was: Well, at least the poor devil had a medium for his madness. As we exited the Academy, our mutual neighbor from Brooklyn Heights commented to my friend that he found Witkacy's mind like the protean and concentric materials on his potter's wheel, elu sive, no whole, no parts. I now believe that these off-the-cuff axioms fixed themselves in my consciousness in the early moments of my excite ment over Witkacy. The probability of his madness and fragmentation in deed disturbed me. Gerould's own passion for Witkacy is quickly intuited beneath the solid scholarship. He undoubtedly chose to confront the particular intensity of darkness permeating his subject. This phenomenon is actually what Howard Clurman has called, 'Hhe deepest dilemma of our civilization . . . what to do with ourselves here and now before its [the Bomb's] possible fall. Witkacy as man and artist embodies the utterly traumatic state of both the particular and collective psyche during and after the World Wars. One can not explore this book without perceiving that Witkacy is one of the most pathological figures of 20th century culture; and Gerould's statement that he was behind the times and ahead of them, thus killing himself in 1939, if anything, compels us to dissect the playwright's rationale for life and art. In the Witkacian world, the two merge in a vortex. Nazism and Communism simply exacerbated Witkacy's already damaged psychological life. Gerould notes: Had he not been the 'artistic spirit' that he was, he would like the thousands upon thousands around him have succumbed to an unmarked but noble grave beneath the rubble of the German and Russian invasions. 99" @default.
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