Sonata Belzebuba

by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Dramat Sonata Belzebuba, czyli prawdziwe zdarzenie w Mordowarze stanowi Witkacowską wersję mitu faustowskiego. Autor szuka w nim odpowiedzi na pytania o rolę sztuki i artysty w skazanym na zagładę świecie. Podejmuje temat niezależności artysty i jego wywyższenia ponad społeczeństwo. Sztuka jawi się jako ostatnia szansa ocalenia ludzkiej indywidualności.

Genres: Polish Literature, Plays, Drama, Fiction

40 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1925

About the author

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (24 February 1885 – 18 September 1939), commonly known as Witkacy, was a Polish writer, painter, philosopher, playwright, novelist, and photographer active in the interwar period.
Born in Warsaw, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz was a son of the painter, architect and an art critic Stanisław Witkiewicz. His mother was Maria Pietrzkiewicz Witkiewiczowa. Both of his parents were born in the Samogitian region of Lithuania. His godmother was the internationally famous actress Helena Modrzejewska.
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – a writer, playwright, poet, painter, photographer, philosopher and an art theoretician. Witkacy was a visionary ahead of his times, and yet a concretely pungent prankster, whose cutting-egde judgement and catastrophic prophesies allow new generations to rediscover his work time and again. One of the few Polish artists whose significance for world art history endures the test of time.
He died by commiting suicide upon learning of the Red Army’s attack on Poland, on the 18th of September, 1939 in the village of Jeziory, Polesie region (present-day Ukraine).

Reviews

[diesirae · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5

[e · Rating 4 out of 5]

buja, lepsze od szewcow

[IgorJuni · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutnie popierdolone, absolutnie wspaniałe, zdecydowanie za krótkie

[Ania | humanistyka · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ten tytuł podobał mi się znacznie mniej niż "Wariat i zakonnica". Niemniej jednak czuć było utrzymanie fragmentarycznej akcji, zgodnej z założeniami witkiewiczowskiej "Teorii Czystej Formy".

[emogej · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5/5 mordowarski koszmar o czystej formie

[Maja · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutnie wspaniała uczta dla piekielnych zmysłów

[Rebecca DeLucia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Could do without his plays, though the documents that follow are far and away the best part for his eccentricities ranging from experimentation with hallucinogens, to non-smoking, and turning inexplicably to the horror of dogs on chains. Also the rules of The S.I. Witkiewicz Portrait Painting Firm are exhilarating, especially, i suspect, for anyone who has ever worked in service industries. "Motto: The customer must be satisfied. Misunderstandings are ruled out." (Imperative being on the customer to accept the portrait purveyed without comment or grievance.)

[Marysia · Rating 3 out of 5]

„Wydobywać trupy! Żeby mi w tej chwili były gotowe!”
SIW

[Justyna Mastalerz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nie mam pojęcia co ja właśnie przeczytałam

[ravenne · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5/5

[weronika · Rating 4 out of 5]

silly goofy witkacy

[Martyna Knap · Rating 2 out of 5]

Witkacy ja cię proszę……..

[J.Kostuch · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Na razie zbrzydły mi erotyczne problemy.”

[nat · Rating 4 out of 5]

kocham witkacego

[simpforrunin]

zawiodłam się lol

[Heru · Rating 4 out of 5]

fajne, szkoda, że jutro mam egzamin

[Stephen Rowland · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Beelzebub Sonata" is actually the weakest play I've read by Witkiewicz. I should really be rating it with 2 stars but I can't do that, my heart won't let me.

[Hadrian · Rating 3 out of 5]

7,5/10