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No one reads Polish avant superman Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, a.k.a. Witkacy (1885 - 1939). Publisher description of his first play, Maciej Korbowa and Bellatrix (1918): “A psychotic guru known as the Master, Maciej Korbowa, aided by his gender-shifting alter-ego Bellatrix, presides over a secret club of disciples addicted to drugs, alcohol, and sado-masochistic orgies and leads this band of metaphysical desperados and decadent artists no longer able to create on a philosophical quest for absolute Nothingness — until he finally betrays them all to the revolutionary Sailors of Death.” Image: Witkacy, Kompozycja z autoportetem, 1918 from a 50 Watts post In English: The Witkiewicz Reader Insatiability (novel) And many plays: Seven Plays by Witkiewicz  The Mother and Other Unsavory Plays  The Madman and the Nun and The Crazy Locomotive Country House Maciej Korbowa and Bellatrix Mr Price, or Tropical Madness and Metaphysics of a Two- Headed Calf

No one reads Polish avant superman Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, a.k.a. Witkacy (1885 - 1939).

Publisher description of his first play, Maciej Korbowa and Bellatrix (1918): “A psychotic guru known as the Master, Maciej Korbowa, aided by his gender-shifting alter-ego Bellatrix, presides over a secret club of disciples addicted to drugs, alcohol, and sado-masochistic orgies and leads this band of metaphysical desperados and decadent artists no longer able to create on a philosophical quest for absolute Nothingness — until he finally betrays them all to the revolutionary Sailors of Death.”

Image: Witkacy, Kompozycja z autoportetem, 1918 from a 50 Watts post

In English:

And many plays:

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