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Gyubal Wahazar. Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. 3.96. 26 ratings3 reviews.
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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ( Polish: [staˈɲiswaf iɡˈnatsɨ vʲitˈkʲɛvʲitʂ]; 24 February 1885 – 18 September 1939), commonly known as Witkacy, was a Polish writer, painter, philosopher, theorist, playwright, novelist, and photographer active before World War I and during the interwar period .
Of his surviving plays (at least twenty out of a total of forty or more), the most notable in this vein include the Dystopian fantasy Gyubal Wahazar, czyli Na przeleczach besensu ["Gyubal Wahazar, or Along the Cliffs of the Absurd"] (written 1921; in coll 1962), Mątwa, czyli Hyrkaniczny światopogląd ["The Cuttlefish, or The Hyrcanian World ...
In Gyubal Wahazar, Witkiewicz uses these same elements in a rather different and much more complex way. Gyubal himself, although in possession of some magical superhuman strength, does not fit Frazer's definition of a magician. He is god-like, existing in "another spiritual dimension."12 Unlike Frazer's magician, he feels he is beyond the
This volume contains seven of Witkiewicz’s most important plays: The Pragmatists, Tumor Brainiowicz, Gyubal Wahazar, The Anonymous Work, The Cuttlefish, Dainty Shapes and hairy Apes, and The Beelzebub Sonata, as well as two of his theoretical essays, “Theoretical Introduction” and “A Few Words about the Role of the Actor in the Theatre ...
This volume contains seven of Witkiewicz’s most important plays: The Pragmatists, Tumor Brainiowicz, Gyubal Wahazar, The Anonymous Work, The Cuttlefish, Dainty Shapes and hairy Apes, and The Beelzebub Sonata, as well as two of his theoretical essays, “Theoretical Introduction” and “A Few Words about the Role of the Actor in the Theatre ...
The director has created a vision of the world in collapse, in which the value vacuum is being exploited by such people as the tyrant Gyubal Wahazar and his opponent Father Unguenty, who offers the disoriented masses a marvelous plan for organizing society.
