Mr Price, or Tropical Madness and Metaphysics of a Two- Headed Calf

کتاب Mr Price, or Tropical Madness and Metaphysics of a Two- Headed Calf

کتاب Mr Price, or Tropical Madness and Metaphysics of a Two- Headed Calf اثر Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz زبان اصلی

The Polish playwright and artist Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, known as Witkacy, is now recognized as Poland’s leading theatrical innovator of the interwar years and one of the outstanding creative personalities of the European avant-garde. This volume contains two of Witkacy’s “tropical” plays inspired by the playwright’s trip to Ceylon and Australia in 1914 with his close friend, the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski.

Mr. Price, or Tropical Madness is a drama of heightened passion and greed among British colonists in Rangoon who seem to have stepped out of Joseph Conrad’s tales of the South Seas.

Metaphysics of a Two headed Calf, set in New Guinea and Australia, pits savage European imperialists against a native tribal Australia and pits savage European imperialists against a native tribal chieftain whose fetish of a great golden frog offers greater insight into the mystery of existence than the Westerners’ shallow rationalism.

Both plays puncture the white rulers’ poses of superiority and parody their images of the tropical Other. Also included in the volume are Witkacy’s Foreword to Metaphysics of a Two-Headed Calf in which the playwright defends his concept of theatre as an autonomous art with a scenic language of its own and an appendix containing a documentary itinerary of Witkacy’s journey to Ceylon.

About the author

Daniel Gerould is Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York Graduate School. He is the Editor of Slavic and East European Performance, and has written, translated and edited numerous books and articles on avant-garde Polish and Russian Drama.

خرید کتاب Mr Price, or Tropical Madness and Metaphysics of a Two- Headed Calf

هم اکنون می‌توانید برای خرید کتاب Mr Price, or Tropical Madness and Metaphysics of a Two- Headed Calf اثر Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz زبان اصلی از فروشگاه اینترنتی کتاب روز اقدام کنید و در اسرع وقت کتاب را درب منزل خود تحویل بگیرید. همچنین سایر کتاب‌های مورد نیاز شما نیز در بانک کتاب روز قابل سفارش است.

کتاب روز همواره تلاش نموده با همکاری مشاورین و اساتید بنام شرایط خرید کتاب و امکان مشاوره برای انتخاب بهترین کتاب‌ها را برای شما بازدید کننده محترم فراهم نماید. اگر کتاب خاصی مدنظر شما است که در سایت نتوانستید آن را بیابید به راحتی از طریق شماره‌های دفتر، واتس آپ و یا فرم درخواست کتاب آن را ثبت کنید.