84th anniversary of the suicide of Witkacy on the news of the russian invasion
date:18 September 2019 Editor: Editorial
WitkaciStanisław Ignacy WitkiewiczWorld War IISovietRussian entry into PolandUSSR attack on Poland
We remind you of the 2019 entry.
On 18 September 1939, in the village of Lakes in Polesiu Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz "Vitkacy" – in the news of the russian army entering Poland on 17 September – took his own life.
On 6 September, he left Warsaw bombarded by the Germans and headed east with a wave of refugees from the capital. It reached the area of Polesia [today's Ukraine].
He was 54 erstwhile he died.
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Self-Portrait multiple, c. 1915-1917, Petersburg, photograph by Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź
The poet and the playwright's catastrophe, his sense of the end of civilization and his own death, his "multiple" portraits of himself and of the people encountered and the accounts of life - there is not adequate talk.
Perhaps the shadow of death in the face of the invasion of the "red plague" has caused that since the times of the Polish People's Republic they have been willingly utilized for a lying image of the fun original-portraitist and his drug adventures, avoiding what constituted the meaning of his life and death? possibly in the current left-wing contexts of culture, is this image distorted by years of communist propaganda besides more attractive?
The creator's game with himself is visible on symbolic photography - the multiplicity of images makes us think that we see the real face of Witkacy; and these are only her reflections....
It's time to break the stereotypes and look seriously at the real face of Witkacy. Especially today...
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
For the sick Devils
For sick devils, perverse angels
A madman's hospital, at whose doorstep
There will be no wise man or prince of numbers.
♪ There's a black man ♪
Whose mountain of fire was born,
And there to stay - white as a worm
Stay Faithful to the Unknown Deity
In a beautiful monkey's embrace
Listening to the silence of interstellar ech
Look at the torment and blood of the black scavenger
Cold laughs in the gut.
Squeeze with pleasance and delight dig it
Until the last death comes.
We urge listening to the broadcast:
https://www.polskieradio24.pl/39/156/Articul/2368669,80-year-old-death-Stanislaw-Ignacy-Vitkiewicz-Witkacy
